Pliolophus

Extinct genus of mammals

Pliolophus Temporal range: Early Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

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
Species
†P. quesnoyensis Bronnert et al., 2017^[1] †P. vulpiceps Owen, 1858

Pliolophus is an extinct equid that lived in the Early Eocene of Britain.^[2]

References

^ 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.