Eggysodon

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Eggysodon
Temporal range: Oligocene, 33.9–23.03  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Eggysodontidae
Genus: Eggysodon
Roman, 1910
Type species
Eggysodon osborni
Schlosser, 1902
Species
  • E. cadibonense (Roger, 1898)
  • E. gaudryi (Rames, 1886)
  • E. osborni
  • E. pomeli (Roman, 1910)
  • E. reichenaui (Deninger, 1903)

Eggysodon is an extinct genus of odd-toed ungulate belong to the rhinoceros-like family Eggysodontidae. It was a small, ground-dwelling browser, and fossils have been found in Oligocene deposits throughout Europe. [1] Eggysodon may have been related to Preaceratherium, and both had tusklike canines and smaller, and fewer, incisors.

Allacerops (=Teniseggysodon), a close relative of Eggysodon, was synonymized with Eggysodon by Heissig (1989), but is now considered a distinct genus. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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References

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