Synoplotherium

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Synoplotherium
Temporal range: Eocene
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Synoplotherium vorax skeleton, Yale.
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Synoplotherium
Species
  • S. vorax Cope, 1872
Synonyms
  • Dromocyon Marsh, 1876

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Synoplotherium (also known as "Dromocyon") is an extinct genus of relatively small, wolf-like mesonychids that lived 50 million years ago, in what is now Wyoming.[1]

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Synoplotherium vorax

Synoplotherium coexisted with its larger relative, Mesonyx.

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