| Source Data | |
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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Phenacodontidae : Phenacodus : Hyracotherium vortmani |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Ungulata : Phenacodontidae : Phenacodus : Hyracotherium vortmani |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Hyracotherium |
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| Scientific Name | Hyracotherium vortmani (Cope, 1880) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Phenacodus vortmani | species | belongs to Hyracotherium | stated with evidence | Cope, 1880 | | Phenacodus vortmani | species | belongs to Phenacodus | stated with evidence | Cope, 1881 | | Phenacodus vortmani | species | belongs to Trispondylus | stated without evidence | Cope, 1884 | | Phenacodus vortmani | species | belongs to Phenacodus | stated without evidence | Hay, 1902 | | Phenacodus vortmani | species | belongs to Phenacodus | stated with evidence | Thewissen, 1990 | | Phenacodus vortmani | species | belongs to Phenacodus | stated without evidence | Rose et al., 2012 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 61.7 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 50.3 - 46.2 Ma
Eocene |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Eutheria) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Phenacodontidae) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. D. Cope. 1880. The bad lands of the Wind River and their fauna. The American Naturalist 14(10):745-748 |
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| Cope E. D. The bad lands of the Wind River and their fauna, The American Naturalist 14 10, 745-748 |
| Cope E. D. On the Vertebrata of the Wind River Eocene beds of Wyoming, Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey 6 1, 183-202 |
| 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 |
| Granger W. (1915) A Revision of the Lower Eocene Wasatch and Wind River Faunas. Part III - Order Condylarthra. Families Phenacodontidae and Meniscotheriidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34 10, 329-361 |
| Thewissen J. G. M. (1990) Evolution of Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra), University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 29, 1-107 |
| 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 |
Hyracotherium vortmani ✝
