Lycopsis

Lycopsis; Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Chasicoan); ~
	Fossil of L. longirostrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Sparassodonta
Superfamily:	†Borhyaenoidea
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. It lived during the Miocene of what is now Colombia.^[1]

Lycopsis was more likely an ambush hunter than a pounce-pursuit predator, stalking small-to medium-sized prey. The borhyaenids in general were once arboreal, and later changed their life-style to one of living on the ground. The skeleton of Lycopsis has a mosaic of features which show it was not yet a fast runner on the ground.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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. [1]

Skull

[Argot-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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. [1]

[1]

Lycopsis Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Chasicoan) ~

Fossil of L. longirostrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Sparassodonta
Superfamily:	†Borhyaenoidea
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