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]
^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.
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