Eggysodon

Eggysodon
Temporal range: Oligocene, 33.9–23.03 Ma
A small, brown, horselike animal with a broad upper lip and small eyes
A restoration of Eggysodon turgaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: †Hyracodontidae
Subfamily: †Eggysodontinae
Genus: Eggysodon
Roman, 1910
Species
  • E. turgaica
Synonyms

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

  1. 1 2 Cerdeño, Esperanza (14 August 1995). "Cladistic Analysis of the Family Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla)" (PDF). New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History: 4. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Eggysodon". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Borissiak. "Tenisia gen. nov.: Taxonomic revaluation of the Asian Oligocene Rhinocerotoid Eggysodon turgacum (Borissiak, 1915) (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Hyracodontidae)". ScienceDirect.
  4. ↑ 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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