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Lycopsis padillai ✝
Description | Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopsis_padillai, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | species | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Borhyaenidae : Lycopsis : Lycopsis padillai | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Chordata : Mammalia : Sparassodonta : Lycopsis : Lycopsis padillai | ||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | doubtful | ||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Generic Name | Lycopsis | ||||||||||
Scientific Name | Lycopsis padillai Suarez, Forasiepi, Goin & Jaramillo, 2015 | ||||||||||
Name Published In | Suarez, Catalina, Analía M. Forasiepi, Francisco J. Goin & Carlos A. Jaramillo. 2015. Insights into the Neotropics prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. | ||||||||||
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 16.0 - 13.8 Ma Miocene | ||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 16.0 - 13.8 Ma Miocene | ||||||||||
Environment | terrestrial (based on Sparassodonta) | ||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) | ||||||||||
Diet | carnivore (based on Sparassodonta) | ||||||||||
Reproduction | viviparous (based on Theria) | ||||||||||
Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) | ||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | C. Suarez, A. Forsiepi, and F. J. Goin, C. Jaramillo. 2016. Insights into the Neotropics prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of northern Colombia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(1):e1029581 | ||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopsis_padillai |
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Year | Name and Author |
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2016 | Lycopsis padillai Suarez et al. pp. e1029581-4 fig. 2 |
References
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!