Copecion

Copecion; Temporal range: Wasatchian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Family:	†Phenacodontidae
Genus:	†Copecion; Gingerich, 1989
Species
	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

^ "Copecion". 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.