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Copecion

Temporal range: Wasatchian

Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: †Phenacodontidae
Genus: †Copecion
Gingerich, 1989
Species[1]
  • Copecion brachypternus (Cope, 1882)
  • Copecion davisi (type) Gingerich, 1989

Copecion was a genus of early herbivorous mammals that was part of the family Phenacodontidae.[2] It reached 6 to 12 kg and was similar in size and morphology to Ectocion. Both these herbivorous ungulates likely occupied similar ecological niches.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Copecion". Fossilworks. Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  • ^ P. D. Gingerich. 1989. "New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage". University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97.
  • ^ Andrew Schwartz (November 2023). "Investigating Niche Overlap in Two Sympatric Phenacodonts using Dental Microwear Texture Analysis". 83rd Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology at Cincinnati, Ohio.

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