Sinopa

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|50.5|39.7|earliest=51.4953}} Early to Middle Eocene

|image = Sinopa grangeri - National Museum of Natural History - IMG 2008.JPG

|image_caption = Sinopa major skeleton

|image2 = Sinopa rapax 1.jpg

|image2_caption = Sinopa rapax skeleton

|taxon = Sinopa

|authority = Leidy, 1871

|type_species = †Sinopa rapax

|type_species_authority = Leidy, 1871

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision =

• †S. jilinia {{small|(Morlo, 2014)}}M. Morlo, K. Bastl, W. Wu and S. F. K. Schaal (2014.) "The first species of Sinopa (Hyaenodontida, Mammalia) from outside of North America: implications for the history of the genus in the Eocene of Asia and North America." Palaeontology 57(1):111-125
• †S. lania {{small|(Matthew, 1909)}}W. D. Matthew (1909.) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
• †S. longipes {{small|(Peterson, 1919)}}O. A. Peterson (1919.) "Report Upon the Material Discovered in the Upper Eocene of the Uinta Basin by Earl Douglas in the Years 1908-1909, and by O. A. Peterson in 1912." Annals of Carnegie Museum 12(2):40-168
• †S. major {{small|(Wortman, 1902)}}J. L. Wortman (1902.) "Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum." The American Journal of Science, series 4 14(79):17-23
• †S. minor {{small|(Wortman, 1902)}}
• †S. piercei {{small|(Bown, 1982)}}T. M. Bown (1982.) [https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1201a/report.pdf "Geology, Paleontology, and Correlation of Eocene Volcaniclastic Rocks, Southeast Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming."] United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1201-A:A1-A75
• †S. pungens {{small|(Cope, 1872)}}E. D. Cope (1872.) "Second account of new Vertebrata from the Bridger Eocene." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate) 1-3
• †S. rapax {{small|(Leidy, 1871)}}J. Leidy (1871) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28117#page/228/mode/1up "Remarks on fossil vertebrates from Wyoming."] Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 23(2):228-229
• †S. sp. A [AMNH FM 11538] {{small|(Matthew, 1906)}}

|synonyms =

{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=synonyms of genus:

|Mimocyon {{small|(Peterson, 1919)}}

|Proviverroides {{small|(Bown, 1982)}}

|Stypolophus {{small|(Cope, 1872)}}

|Triacodon {{small|(Marsh, 1871)}}

}}

{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=synonyms of species:

|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=S. longipes:

|Miacis longipes {{small|(Simpson, 1945)}}

|Mimocyon longipes {{small|(Peterson, 1919)}}

|Proviverra longipes {{small|(Dawson, 1980)}}

}}

|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=S. major:

|Proviverra grangeri {{small|(Van Valen, 1965)}}L. Van Valen (1965.) "Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)." Palaeontology 8(4):638-665

|Proviverra major {{small|(Gustafson, 1986)}}E. P. Gustafson (1986.) "Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas." Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66

|Sinopa grangeri {{small|(Matthew, 1906)}}

}}

|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=S. minor:

|Proviverra minor {{small|(Van Valen, 1965)}}

}}

|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=S. piercei:

|Proviverroides piercei {{small|(Bown, 1982)}}

}}

|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=S. pungens:

|Proviverra pungens {{small|(Van Valen, 1965)}}

|Stypolophus pungens {{small|(Cope, 1872)}}

}}

|{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=S. rapax:

|Proviverra rapax {{small|(Van Valen, 1965)}}

|Sinopa aculeatus {{small|(Cope, 1871)}}E. D. Cope (1871.) "Descriptions of some new Vertebrata from the Bridger Group of the Eocene." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 12:460-465

|Stypolophus aculeatus {{small|(Cope, 1872)}}

|Stypolophus rapax

|Triacodon aculeatus {{small|(Cope, 1872)}}

|Triacodon fallax {{small|(Marsh, 1872)}}

}} }}

|synonyms_ref = J. Alroy (2002.) "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."

}}

Sinopa ("swift fox"){{Cite journal |author1=Floréal Solé |author2=Jocelyn Falconnet |author3=Laurent Yves |year=2014 |title=New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=171 |issue=4 |pages=878–917 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12155|doi-access=free }} 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.{{cite web |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40944 |work=The Paleobiology Database |title=Sinopa |access-date=3 May 2011}}{{Cite journal |last1=Tomiya |first1=S. |last2=Zack |first2=S. P. |last3=Spaulding |first3=M. |last4=Flynn |first4=J. J. |title=Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world |year=2021 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=95 |issue=Supplement S82 |pages=1–115 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2020.74|bibcode=2021JPal...95S...1T |doi-access=free |hdl=2433/274918 |hdl-access=free }}