Eggysodon
Eggysodon Temporal range: Oligocene,
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Genus: | Eggysodon Roman, 1910
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Allacerops[1] |
Eggysodon is an extinct genus of odd-toed ungulate. It was a small, ground-dwelling browser, and fossils have been found in Oligocene rocks of Germany.[2] A closely related genus, but with a greater number of incisors and premolars, has been found in Oligocene rocks in Khazakhstan. The genus, Tenisia, was described in 1915.[3] Eggysodon may have been related to Preaceratherium, and both had tusklike canines and smaller, and fewer, incisors.[4] It is also related to Prohyracodon, and is synonymous with Allacerops.[1]
References
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(help) - ^ Borissiak. "Tenisia gen. nov.: Taxonomic revaluation of the Asian Oligocene Rhinocerotoid Eggysodon turgacum (Borissiak, 1915) (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Hyracodontidae)". ScienceDirect.
- ^ Radinsky, Leonard B. (November 1966). "THE FAMILIES OF THE RHINOCEROTOIDEA (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA)" (PDF). Journal of Mammalogy. 47. JSTOR 1377893. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
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