Synoplotherium
| Synoplotherium Temporal range: | |
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| Synoplotherium lanius skeleton on display at the Peabody Museum of Natural History (holotype of Dromocyon vorax). | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Mesonychia |
| Family: | †Mesonychidae |
| Genus: | †Synoplotherium Cope, 1872 |
| Type species | |
| †Synoplotherium lanius Cope, 1872 | |
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Synoplotherium (synonym Dromocyon) is an extinct genus of relatively small, wolf-like mesonychids that lived 50 million years ago, in what is now Wyoming.
Synoplotherium coexisted with its larger relative, Mesonyx. Very little else remains known about this mesonychid since its discovery in 1875.