Lycopsis padillai

I must made this before... this is a quick reconstruction of Lycopsis padillai, the most recent named species of Lycopsis, a relatively large sparassodont from the Miocene of Guajira, in northern Colombia. This fossil, a partial left maxilla with molars (in brown in the image above) proof that Lycopsis was a very succesful sparassodont: other species, L. longirostrus, has been found in La Venta. Colombia (where comes a very complete skeleton: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…), and other two, L. torresi and L. viverensis, from the Early and Late Miocene of Argentina, respectively. The skull used for this image is based in the complete Lycopsis longirostrus.

References:
- Suárez, C.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Goin, F. J.; Jaramillo, C. (2015). «Insights into the Neotropics prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia». Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10…