Sinopa
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Sinopa ("swift fox") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct clade Sinopinae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America and Asia from the early to middle Eocene.
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Sinopa ("swift fox") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct clade Sinopinae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America and Asia from the early to middle Eocene.
==Description== Sinopa was a small genus of hyaenodontid mammals. Its carnassial teeth were the second upper molar and the lower third. Sinopa species had an estimated weight of 1.33 to 13.97 kilograms. The type specimen was found in the Bridger formation in Uinta County, Wyoming, and existed 50.3 to 46.2 million years ago.
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