Alicornops

{{short description|Extinct genus of rhinoceros}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Temporal range|Miocene|Early Pliocene}}

| image = 15314659650927uLc19SKKXYuBZuf.jpg

| image_caption = Alicornops simorrense

| taxon = Alicornops

| authority = Ginsburg & Guerin, 1979

| type_species = †Alicornops simorrense

|type_species_authority = Lartet, 1851{{cite web |title=Alicornops simorrense |url=https://science.mnhn.fr/taxon/species/alicornops/simorrense?lang=en_US |website=MNHN France}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• A. alfambrense
• A. complanatum
• A. laogouense
• A. simorrense

}}

Alicornops is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid belonging to the subfamily Aceratheriinae. It lived in Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene.

Four species are known. Two of them, Alicornops complanatum and Alicornops laogouense were described recently from the Siwaliks of Pakistan.{{cite journal |last1=Kahn |first1=A.M. |title=New Alicornops (Rhinocerotidae) remains from Lower and Middle Siwaliks, Pakistan |journal=Annales de Paléontologie |date=2013 |volume=99 |issue=2 |pages=131–155 |doi=10.1016/j.annpal.2012.10.003|bibcode=2013AnPal..99..131K |hdl=11336/4824 |hdl-access=free }}

The type species Alicornops simorrense was a relatively small aceratheriine with a small horn, short tridactyl legs and strongly curved lower incisors.{{cite book |last1=Henke |first1=Winfried |last2=Tattersall |first2=Ian |title=Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I:Principles, Methods and Approaches Vol II:Primate Evolution and Human Origins Vol III:Phylogeny of Hominids |date=2007 |publisher=Springer |page=981}}