Palaeosinopa

Palaeosinopa
Temporal range: late Paleocene to early Eocene
reconstruction of Palaeosinopa didelphoides
fossil of Palaeosinopa didelphoides from Wyoming
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pantolesta
Family: Pantolestidae
Subfamily: Pantolestinae
Genus: Palaeosinopa
Matthew, 1901
Type species
Palaeosinopa didelphoides
Cope, 1881
Species
  • P. aestuarium (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
  • P. didelphoides (Cope, 1881)
  • P. dorri (Gingerich, 1980)
  • P. incerta (Bown & Schankler, 1982)
  • P. lacus (Gunnell, 2016)
  • P. lutreola (Matthew, 1918)
  • P. nunavutensis (Eberle & McKenna, 2002)
  • P. osborni (Lemoine, 1891)
  • P. reclusum (Rankin, 2014)
  • P. russelli (Smith, 1997)
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • P. didelphoides:
    • Ictops didelphoides (Cope, 1881)
    • Palaeosinopa veterrima (Matthew, 1901)

Palaeosinopa ("ancient Sinopa") is an extinct genus of semi-aquatic mammals belonging to the subfamily Pantolestinae within family Pantolestidae. Species in this genus lived from the late Paleocene to early Eocene in North America and Europe. Their diet consisted of other aquatic life forms.