''Copecion'' was a genus of early herbivorous mammals that was part of the family
Phenacodontidae
Phenacodontidae is an extinct family of large herbivorous mammals traditionally placed in the “wastebasket taxon” Condylarthra, which may instead represent early-stage perissodactyls. They lived from the late early Paleocene to early middle ...
. It reached 6 to 12 kg and was similar in size and morphology to ''
Ectocion''. Both these herbivorous ungulates likely occupied similar ecological niches.
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Phenacodontidae
Paleocene mammals of North America
Eocene mammals of North America
Eocene genus extinctions
Prehistoric placental genera
Fossil taxa described in 1989
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