Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Full reference: 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
Parent taxon: Phenacodontidae according to T. J. D. Halliday et al. 2017
See also Archibald 1998, Gingerich 1989 and Rose et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Almogaver, Eodesmatodon, Lophocion, Meniscotheriinae, Phenacodus, Tetraclaenodon
Subtaxa: Copecion brachypternus Copecion davisi
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (80: Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming collections)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 81 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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