Pliolophus Temporal range:
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Pliolophus vulpiceps, Natural History Museum, London | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Genus: | †Pliolophus Owen, 1858 |
Type species | |
P. vulpiceps | |
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Pliolophus is an extinct equid that lived in the Early Eocene of Britain.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Constance Bronnert; Emmanuel Gheerbrant; Marc Godinot; Grégoire Métais (2017). "A primitive perissodactyl (Mammalia) from the early Eocene of Le Quesnoy (MP7, France)". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 30 (1–2): 237–250. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1341502. S2CID 90407317.
- ^ Froehlich, D. J. (2002). "Quo vadis eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134 (2): 141–256. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00005.x.