Copecion

Copecion; Temporal range: Wasatchian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla (?)
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]

References[]

^ Copecion at fossilworks.org
^ 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.

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