Coryphodon

Coryphodon is an extinct genus of pantodonts of the family Coryphodontidae.

Coryphodon

H. F. Osborn. · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoryphodontidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwelling, polymorphPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB
Length
2.5 mWikidata
Mass
500 kgWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 57.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 57 of 490 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 433 of 490 occurrencesEocene58–57 Mya — about 7 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 26 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 30 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 59 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 59 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 59 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 59 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 59 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 59 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 57 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya48.07 Mya58 Mya37.2 Mya

490 occurrences of Coryphodon on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

490 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

27 formations

Willwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.72°WWillwood — 44.68°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.41°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.35°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWasatch — 43.25°N, 110.42°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWasatch — 40.00°N, 107.90°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.78°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 44.50°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°W"Wasatch" — 40.20°N, 109.90°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°W"Wasatch" — 43.90°N, 105.70°WHannold Hill — 29.20°N, 103.20°WHannold Hill — 29.42°N, 103.14°WHannold Hill — 29.40°N, 103.18°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WWoolwich — 51.45°N, 0.07°WWoolwich — 51.43°N, 0.06°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WMargaret — 78.50°N, 82.00°WTienen — 50.33°N, 4.28°ETienen — 50.42°N, 4.22°EGalisteo — 35.50°N, 106.20°WHatchetigbee — 31.40°N, 88.20°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°WUpper Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WIndian Meadows — 43.20°N, 108.20°WHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°EHarwich — 51.94°N, 1.26°EXinyu — 27.80°N, 114.92°E

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The named rock units Coryphodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coryphodon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Coryphodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

635 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 464 sites for Coryphodon, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

67 references

Each of the 490 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 55 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content4

Picture of Coryphodon

Credit
H. F. Osborn.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Coryphodon elephantopus (Cope)

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Coryphodon radians · YPM:VP:YPM VP 011331

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1845)