Metasinopa
| Metasinopa Temporal range: Early Oligocene
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| lower jaw of Metasinopa fraasii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | †Teratodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Teratodontinae |
| Genus: | †Metasinopa Osborn, 1909 |
| Type species | |
| †Metasinopa fraasi Osborn, 1909
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Metasinopa ("next to Sinopa") is a genus of teratodontine hyaenodont that lived during the early Oligocene in Egypt (northern Africa).
Taxonomy
[edit]Although Metasinopa fraasi is the only unambiguous species of the genus, the early Miocene species Metasinopa napaki from Uganda was originally assigned to Metasinopa by Savage (1965), but was later moved to Paracynohyaenodon by van Valen (1967), and is now assigned to the Miocene Anasinopa, as A. napaki.[4] "Sinopa" ethiopica has been assigned to Metasinopa following Savage (1965), but may be its own genus considering its younger age relative to M. fraasi.[5]
References
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- ^ C. W. Andrews (1906.) "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt" 1-324
- ^ H. F. Osborn (1909.) "New carnivorous mammals from the Fayûm Oligocene, Egypt." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26:415-424
- ^ Holroyd, Patricia Ann (1994.) "An examination of dispersal origins of Fayum Mammalia" Duke University, Ph.D. dissertation.
- ^ Jorge Morales; Martin Pickford (2017). "New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia)" (PDF). Fossil Imprint. 73 (3–4): 332–359. doi:10.2478/if-2017-0019. S2CID 31350436.
- ^ Lewis, Margaret E.; Morlo, Michael (2010). "Creodonta". Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. pp. 542–560. doi:10.1525/california/9780520257214.003.0026. ISBN 9780520257214.