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Coryphodon lobatus fossil

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English: Coryphodon lobatus Cope, 1877 - fossil pantodont mammal from the Eocene of Colorado, USA. (FMNH P15628, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA)

From museum signage: "Pantodonts were large, lumbering plant eaters. Coryphodon may have lived part-time in the water, like a hippo: it has teeth similar to a hippo's and a big, hippo-like body."

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Cimolesta, Pantodonta, Coryphodontidae

Stratigraphy: upper Shire Member, upper DeBeque Formation, Lostcabinian Stage, Lower Eocene

Locality: Piceance Creek Basin, northwestern Colorado, USA


See info. at:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coryphodon
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Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/32398856745/
Author James St. John

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