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

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.

Skull

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[Argot-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.