Copecion
Appearance
Copecion Temporal range: Wasatchian
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Family: | †Phenacodontidae |
Genus: | †Copecion Gingerich, 1989 |
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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]- ^ "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.
External links
[edit]- "Copecion" at the Encyclopedia of Life