Allacerops

{{Short description|Prehistoric mammal}}

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| fossil_range = Oligocene, {{fossil range|33.9|23.03}}

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| taxon = Allacerops

| authority = Wood, 1932

| type_species = Allacerops turgaica

| type_species_authority = (Borissiak, 1915)

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Allacerops 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 Central and East Asia.

Allacerops was synonymized with Eggysodon by Heissig (1989), but is now considered a distinct genus.Heissig, K., 1989. Rhinocerotidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch, (eds.), The evolution of perissodactyls, pp.399-417. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.B.-Y. Wang and Z.-X. Qiu. 2004. Discovery of early Oligocene mammalian fossils from Danghe area, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 42(2):130-143B. Bai and Y.-Q. Wang. 2012. Proeggysodon gen. nov., a primitive Eocene eggysodontine (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Erden Obo, Siziwangqi, Nei Mongol, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 50(3):204-218H. Wang, B. Bai, J. Meng and Y. Wang. 2016. Earliest known unequivocal rhinocerotoid sheds new light on the origin of Giant Rhinos and phylogeny of early rhinocerotoids. Scientific Reports 6:39607:1-9 Unaware that Wood (1932) made turgaica the type species of Allacerops, Reshetov et al. (1993) erected Tenisia for "Epiaceratherium" turgaica. Tenisia, however, was already in use for a brachiopod, so Spassov (1994) erected Teniseggysodon as a replacement. In any case, Qiu et al. (1999) recognized Teniseggysodon a junior objective synonym of Allacerops as both were based on the same type species.Reshetov, V., Spassov, N., and Baishashov, B., 1993. Tenisia gen. nov.: Taxonomic revaluation of the Asian Oligocene Rhinocerotoid Eggysodon turgaicum (Borissiak, 1915) (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Hyracodontidae). Geobios 26(3): 715–722.Qiu Zhan-xiang; Wang Ban-yue, 1999. Allacerops (Rhinocerotoidea, Perissodactyla) its discovery in China and its systematic position. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 37 (1): 48-61, pl.1Spassov, N., 1994. Teniseggysodon nom. nov. pro Tenisia Reshetov, Spassov, Baishashov, 1993 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Hyracodontidae). Geobios, 27(2):220.