Copecion

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Copecion
Temporal range: Wasatchian
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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

  1. "Copecion". Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.