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- Work cat.: McGee, E.M. A paleopopulation of Coryphodon lobatus (Mammalia:Pantodonta) from Deardorff Hill Coryphodon Quarry, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, c2010:p. 1 (Coryphodon was a large-bodied, subdigitigrade browsing mammal common in North America, Europe, and Asia from the latest Paleocene to the early Eocone) p. 4 (Family Coryphodontidae, Order Pantodonta)
- Wikipedia, Mar. 23, 2010(Coryphodon is an extinct genus of mammal. It was widespread in North America between 59 and 51 million years ago. Family: Coryphodontidae. Suborder: Pantodonta. Order: Cimolesta)
- Encyc. Britannica online, Mar. 23, 2010(Coryphodon; genus of extinct primitive hoofed mammals known from Late Paleocene and Early Eocene deposits (those that date from about 63.5 to 52 million years ago) in North America and Early Eocene deposits in Europe and eastern Asia; representative of an archaic group, the pantodonts)
- The paleobiology database, via WWW, Mar. 23, 2010(Coryphodon Owen 1845 (pantodont). Mammalia - Pantodonta - Coryphodontidae. Synonyms: Bathmodon Cope 1872, Ectacodon Cope 1882, Loxolophodon Cope 1872, Manteodon Cope 1882, Metalophodon Cope 1872)
- Genera and species of Paleocene mammals, via WWW, Mar. 23, 2010(Coryphodon. Family Coryphodontidae. Synonyms: Loxolophodon, Bathmodon, Metalophodon, Ectacodon, Manteodon)
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Coryphodon (from Greek κορῦφὴ, "point", and ὀδοὺς, "tooth", meaning peaked tooth, referring to "the development of the angles of the ridges into points [on the molars].") is an extinct genus of pantodonts of the family Coryphodontidae. Coryphodon was a pantodont, a member of the world's first group of large browsing mammals. It migrated across what is now northern North America (being among the largest of fauna in Wasatch Formation), replacing Barylambda, an earlier pantodont. It is regarded as the ancestor of the genus Hypercoryphodon of Late Eocene Mongolia. Coryphodon is known from many specimens in North America and considerably fewer in Europe, Mongolia, and China. It is a small to medium-sized coryphodontid which differs from other members of the family in dental characteristics.
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