Mammal
Phenacodus
It is one of the first known hoofed mammals.
Phenacodus allows us to peer into an early stage of hoofed mammals.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Phenacodus at a glance
- Diet
- Mainly herbivorous
- Its low-cusped teeth are consistent with processing plant foods.
- When it lived
- Paleogene
- Group
- Phenacodontidae
- Phenacodontids
- Fossil locations
- Wyoming
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Phenacodus
It represents an early phase in the evolution of hoofed mammals. Its fossils cover the end of the Paleocene and part of the Eocene, long before modern faunas of large herbivores.
It is one of the first known hoofed mammals. Its history predates many of the large herbivore faunas familiar today. Hooves are part of a wide variety of forms, not a single animal model.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Phenacodus
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- Phenacodus
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- Phenacodontidae
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- Mammals with debated relationships
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