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Description

Palaeosinopa is an extinct genus of semi-aquatic, non-placental eutherian mammals belonging to the family Pantolestidae. Their diet consisted of other semi-aquatic life forms.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeosinopa, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831668	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831668
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40285	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40285

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Pantolestidae : Palaeosinopa

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cimolesta : Pantolestidae : Palaeosinopa

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Cimolesta
suborder	Pantolesta	McKenna 1975
family	Pantolestidae	Cope 1884
genus	Palaeosinopa	Matthew 1901

Scientific Name

Palaeosinopa Matthew, 1901

Name Published In

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 14, 20

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palaeosinopa	genus	belongs to Pantolestidae	stated without evidence	Matthew, 1901
Palaeosinopa	genus	belongs to Proviverridae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Palaeosinopa	genus	belongs to Pantolestidae	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Palaeosinopa	genus	belongs to Pantolestidae	stated with evidence	Gingerich, 1980
Palaeosinopa	genus	belongs to Pantolestidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Palaeosinopa	genus	belongs to Pantolestinae	stated without evidence	Lopatin, 2006
Palaeosinopa	genus	belongs to Pantolestidae	stated without evidence	Rose et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

61.7 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene

Last Recorded Appearance

50.3 - 46.2 Ma
Eocene

Environment

freshwater,terrestrial (based on Pantolestidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

piscivore, durophage (based on Pantolestidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Pantolestidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeosinopa

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ictops didelphoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	61.7 Ma Paleocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Palaeosinopa aestuarium ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Palaeosinopa dorri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	61.7 Ma Paleocene	58.7 Ma Paleocene
Palaeosinopa incerta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		25	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Palaeosinopa lacus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Palaeosinopa lutreola ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Palaeosinopa nunavutensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Palaeosinopa osborni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeosinopa reclusum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Palaeosinopa russelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Palaeosinopa veterrima ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		32	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1901	Palaeosinopa Matthew
1902	Palaeosinopa Hay p. 754
1967	Palaeosinopa Van Valen
1980	Palaeosinopa Gingerich p. 449
1997	Palaeosinopa McKenna and Bell
2006	Palaeosinopa Lopatin
2012	Palaeosinopa Rose et al.

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

Gingerich P. D. (1980) A new species of Palaeosinopa (Insectivora: Pantolestidae) from the late Paleocene of western North America, Journal of Mammalogy 61 3, 449-454

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Lopatin A. V. (2006) Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora, Paleontological Journal 40 3, S205-S405

Rose K. D., Chew A. E., et al (2012) Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36, 1-122

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

refer synonym source - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 12 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 14, 20 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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