Lycopsis

Lycopsis; Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Chasicoan); ~16.3–9.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil of L. longirostrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Sparassodonta
Superfamily:	†
Genus:	†Lycopsis; Cabrera 1927
Species
	L. torresi Cabrera 1927 (type species); L. longirostrus Marshall 1976; L. viverensis Forasiepi et al. 2003;
Synonyms
	Anatherium oxyrhynchus Ameghino 1894;

Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia.^[1]

Taxonomy[]

Skull of Lycopsis

The cladogram after the analysis of Suárez et al., 2015, looks as follows:^[2]

Lycopsis

Lycopsis longirostrus

Lycopsis viverensis

Prothylacynus

Fossils of Lycopsis have been found in:^[3]

^ Argot, C. (2004). "Functional-adaptive analysis of the postcranial skeleton of a Laventan borhyaenoid, Lycopsis longirostris (Marsupialia, Mammalia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (3): 689. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0689:FAOTPS]2.0.CO;2.
^ Suárez, C.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Goin, F. J.; Jaramillo, C. (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. Online edition: e1029581. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1029581.
^ Lycopsis at Fossilworks.org

Lycopsis Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Chasicoan) ~16.3–9.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Fossil of L. longirostrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Sparassodonta
Superfamily:	†
Genus:	†Lycopsis Cabrera 1927
Species
L. torresi Cabrera 1927 (type species) L. longirostrus Marshall 1976 L. viverensis Forasiepi et al. 2003
Synonyms
Anatherium oxyrhynchus Ameghino 1894