''Lycopsis'' is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and

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History

Although not named until 1927, Florentino Ameghino described a species now seen as synonymous with ''Lycopsis torresi'', ''Anatherium oxyrhynchus'', in 1895 based on a mandibular ramus with several teeth.Marshall, L. G. (1977). A new species of Lycopsis (Borhyaenidae: Marsupialia) from the La Venta fauna (Late Miocene) of Colombia, South America. ''Journal of Paleontology'', 633-642. The fossil was recovered from Puesto Estancia La Costa in Santa Cruz, Argentina, dating to the Miocene. The type material of ''Lycopsis'' was collected in July 1895 by "C. Berry" from the middle Miocene strata of the Santa Cruz Formation along the Santa Cruz River in the same area.Cabrera, Á. (1927). Datos para el conocimiento de los dasiuroideos fósiles argentinos. ''Revista del Museo de la Plata'', ''30'', 271-315. The fossils (MLP 11-113) were fragmentary, constituting only several fragmentary jaw sections from the maxilla and mandible, including several molars.Argot, C. (2004). Functional-adaptive analysis of the postcranial skeleton of a Laventan borhyaenoid, Lycopsis longirostris (Marsupialia, Mammalia). ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'', ''24''(3), 689-708. However, these fossils weren't named until in 1927, Angelo Cabrera named ''Lycopsis torresi'', the generic name meaning "wolf-like aspect" after the anatomy of the mandible and the specific name after Argentine paleontologist and the director of the

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at the time, Luis Maria Torres.

Taxonomy

The cladogram after the analysis of Suárez ''et al''., 2015, looks as follows:

Distribution

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3840985 Sparassodonts Burdigalian first appearances Tortonian extinctions Miocene mammals of South America Chasicoan Mayoan Laventan Colloncuran Friasian Santacrucian Neogene Argentina Fossils of Argentina Neogene Colombia Fossils of Colombia Honda Group, Colombia Fossil taxa described in 1927 Prehistoric mammal genera