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- Ocepeia abstract "Ocepeia is an extinct genus of afrotherian mammal that lived in present-day Morocco during the middle Paleocene epoch, approximately 60 million years ago. First named and described in 2001, the type species is O. daouiensis from the Selandian stage of Morocco's Ouled Abdoun Basin. A second, larger species, O. grandis, is known from the Thanetian, a slightly younger stage in the same area. In life, the two species are estimated to have weighed about 3.5 kg (7.7 lb) and 10 kg (22 lb), respectively, and are believed to have been specialized leaf-eaters. The fossil skulls of Ocepeia are both the oldest known afrotherian skulls, and the best-known of any Paleocene mammal in Africa.Loosely grouped with the archaic ungulates known as \"condylarths\", Ocepeia shares several features with primitive paenungulates (a group including elephants, hyraxes, and extinct relatives), but some analyses suggest it is more closely related to Afroinsectiphilia (a group containing aardvarks, golden moles, and tenrecs). As such, it may represent a transitional stage in the evolution of paenungulates from insectivore-like mammals. Unusual features of Ocepeia include skull bones with many air-spaces, and teeth and jaws reminiscent of those of simian primates. Ocepeia also has fewer teeth than other early ungulates. Ocepeia is distinct enough from other groups that it is placed in its own family, Ocepeiidae.Ocepeia lived at a time when northwest Africa was at the intersection of the Atlantic Ocean and the ancient Tethys Ocean, and much of the area was flooded by shallow, warm inland seas. Ocepeia fossils are associated with diverse sharks, birds, and marine reptiles, and a small number of early mammals, including other condylarths and early proboscideans. The early appearance and specialized features of Ocepeia suggest afrotherians originated and diversified within Africa, contrary to theories suggesting a more northern origin.".
- Ocepeia thumbnail Ocepeia_head_restoration_PLoS_ONE.png?width=300.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageLength "30887".
- Ocepeia wikiPageOutDegree "190".
- Ocepeia wikiPageRevisionID "703857237".
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink 2001_in_paleontology.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink 2014_in_paleontology.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Aardvark.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Abdounodus.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Acristatherium.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Adaptation.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Afroinsectiphilia.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Afrotheria.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Anatomical_terms_of_location.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Arboreal_locomotion.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Arctocyonidae.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Asioryctes.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_Ocean.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Autapomorphy.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Boualitomus.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink CT_scan.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Condylarths.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fossil_taxa_described_in_2001.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fossils_of_Morocco.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Paleocene_mammals_of_Africa.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Transitional_fossils.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Cimolestes.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Cingulum_(brain).
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Cladistics.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Cladogram.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Copes_rule.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Daouitherium.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Dentition.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Desmostylia.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Diastema.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Ectocion.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Eocene.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Eutheria.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Hyaenodontidae.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Hyopsodus.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Inland_sea_(geology).
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Lambertocyon.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Late_Cretaceous.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Leptictida.
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Median.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Meniscotherium.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Middle_ear.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Molar_(tooth).
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Monotypic_taxon.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Morocco.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink National_Museum_of_Natural_History_(France).
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Occipital_bone.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Ocepechelon.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Ocepesuchus.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Office_Chérifien_des_Phosphates.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Orbit_(anatomy).
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Order_(biology).
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- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Ouled_Abdoun_Basin.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Paenungulata.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Palaeophis.
- Ocepeia wikiPageWikiLink Palate.