Copecion Explained

Copecion was a genus of early herbivorous mammals that was part of the family Phenacodontidae.^[1] It reached 6 to 12 kg and was similar in size and morphology to Ectocion. Both these herbivorous ungulates likely occupied similar ecological niches.^[2]

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. 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.