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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 mammal.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coryphodon, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3239951	https://www.gbif.org/species/3239951
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40574	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40574

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Coryphodontidae : Coryphodon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cimolesta : Coryphodontidae : Coryphodon

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Cimolesta
suborder	Pantodonta
family	Coryphodontidae	Marsh 1876
genus	Coryphodon	Owen 1845

Scientific Name

Coryphodon Owen, 1845

Name Published In

B. Foss. Mamm.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated without evidence	Owen, 1845
Coryphodon	genus	subjective synonym of Lophiodon	stated without evidence	Blainville, 1846
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Perissodactyla	stated without evidence	Owen, 1848
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Pantodonta	stated with evidence	Cope, 1875
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated without evidence	Marsh, 1876
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated with evidence	Earle, 1892
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated with evidence	Simons, 1960
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated without evidence	Lucas, 1984
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated without evidence	de Muizon and Marshall, 1992
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated with evidence	Wang, 1994
Coryphodon	genus	belongs to Coryphodontidae	stated without evidence	Rose et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.8 - 55.8 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore

Reproduction

viviparous

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. G. Lucas. 1984. Early Paleocene vertebrates, stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, West Fork of Gallegos Canyon, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 6(3):56-60

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coryphodon

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bathmodon brevipes ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Bathmodon latipes ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Bathmodon pachypus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bathmodon radians ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		42	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Bathmodon semicinctus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Coryphodon eocaenus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		96	56.8 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Coryphodon flerowi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Coryphodon gosseleti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Coryphodon lobatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Coryphodon oweni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Coryphodon pisuqti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Coryphodon proterus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	56.8 Ma Paleocene	56.8 Ma Paleocene
Coryphodon ryani ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Coryphodon singularis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Loxolophodon furcatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Manteodon youngi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Metalophodon armatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		33	55.8 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Loxolophodon Cope, 1872	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Coryphodontidae : *Loxolophodon*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1845	Coryphodon Owen
1848	Coryphodon Owen p. 139
1872	Metalophodon Cope
1872	Bathmodon Cope p. 2
1872	Loxolophodon Cope p. 4
1873	Bathmodon Cope p. 1
1873	Loxolophodon Cope p. 5
1873	Bathmodon Cope p. 30
1873	Metalophodon Cope p. 34
1875	Bathmodon Cope p. 28
1875	Coryphodon Cope p. 28
1875	Loxolophodon Cope p. 28
1875	Metalophodon Cope p. 28
1876	Coryphodon Marsh p. 428
1877	Coryphodon Cope
1882	Coryphodon Cope

Year	Name and Author
1882	Ectacodon Cope
1882	Manteodon Cope
1882	Metalophodon Cope
1882	Manteodon Cope p. 166
1882	Ectacodon Cope p. 167
1892	Coryphodon Earle p. 155
1892	Manteodon Earle p. 155
1902	Coryphodon Hay p. 697
1960	Coryphodon Simons p. 11
1984	Coryphodon Lucas
1988	Coryphodon Carroll
1988	Manteodon Carroll
1992	Coryphodon de Muizon and Marshall p. 514 figs. Table 2
1994	Coryphodon Wang
1995	Coryphodon Uhen and Gingerich
2012	Coryphodon Rose et al.

References

Lucas S. G. (1984) Early Paleocene vertebrates, stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, West Fork of Gallegos Canyon, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, New Mexico Geology 6 3, 56-60

Owen R. Description of teeth and portions of jaws of two extinct Anthracotherioid quadrupeds (Hyopotamus vectianus and Hyop. bovinus) discovered by the Marchioness of Hastings in the Eocene deposits on the NW coast of the Isle of Wight: with an attempt to develope Cuvier's idea of the Classification of Pachyderms by the number of their toes, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 4, 103-141

Cope E. D. On Bathmodon, an extinct genus of ungulates, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate), 1-4

Cope E. D. [Remarks on the geology of Wyoming], American Journal of Science, series 3 (separate), 1-2

Cope E. D. , Systematic Catalogue of Vertebrata of the Eocene of New Mexico, Collected in 1874. Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Engineer Department, U. S. Army, 5-37

Marsh O. C. On some characters of the genus Coryphodon Owen, American Journal of Science 3, 425-428

Cope E. D. Contributions to the history of the Vertebrata of the lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico, made during 1881, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 20 111, 139-197

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Simons E. L. (1960) The Paleocene Pantodonta, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 50 6, 1-81

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

de Muizon C., Marshall L. G. (1992) Alcidedorbignya inopinata (Mammalia: Pantodonta) from the Early Paleocene of Bolivia: Phylogenetic and Paleobiogeographic Implications, Journal of Paleontology 66 3, 499-520

Wang J. (1994) A new species of Eudinoceras (Pantodonta, Mammalia) from Sishui Shandong Province, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 32 3, 200-208

Uhen M. D., Gingerich P. D. (1995) Evolution of Coryphodon (Mammalia, Pantodonta) in the late Paleocene and early Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 29 10, 259-289

Rose K. D., Chew A. E., et al (2012) Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36, 1-122

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

B. Foss. Mamm. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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