Name: Lycopsis.
Phonetic: Ly-kop-sis.
Named By: Cabrera - 1927.
Synonyms: Anatherium oxyrhynchus.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Metatheria,
Sparassodonta, Borhyaenoidea.
Species: L. torresi
(type), L. longirostrus, L. viverensis .
Diet: Carnivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Argentina. Colombia.
Time period: Miocene.
Fossil representation: Several individuals.
Lycopsis
is a genus of borhyaenoid mammal that lived in South America during the
Miocene.
Further reading
- A New Species of Lycopsis (Borhyaenidae:
Marsupialia) from
the La Venta Fauna (Late Miocene) of Colombia, South America.
- Journal of Paleontology 51(3):633-642. - L. G.
Marshall - 1977.
- New clues for understanding Neogene marsupial radiation.
Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. & The Miocene
fauna of La Venta, Colombia 187-206. - F. J. Goin -
1997.
- Una nueva especie de Lycopsis (Metatheria,
Prothylacyninae) de
la Formaci�n Arroyo Chasic� (Mioceno Tard�o) de la provincia de
Buenos Aires. - Ameghiniana 40(2):249-253. - A. M.
Forasiepi, F. J. Goin & V. Martino - 2003.
- 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. - C. Suarez, A. Forsiepi, F. J.
Goin & C. Jaramillo - 2016.