Pliolophus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Eocene

| image = Pliolophus vulpiceps.JPG

| image_caption = Pliolophus vulpiceps, Natural History Museum, London

| taxon = Pliolophus

| authority = Owen, 1858

| type_species = P. vulpiceps

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • P. quesnoyensis Bronnert et al., 2017{{cite journal |author1=Constance Bronnert |author2=Emmanuel Gheerbrant |author3=Marc Godinot |author4=Grégoire Métais |year=2017 |title=A primitive perissodactyl (Mammalia) from the early Eocene of Le Quesnoy (MP7, France) |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=237–250 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1341502 |s2cid=90407317 }}
  • P. vulpiceps Owen, 1858

| synonyms =

}}

Pliolophus is an extinct equid that lived in the Early Eocene of Britain.{{Cite journal | last1 = Froehlich | first1 = D. J. | title = Quo vadis eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla) | doi = 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00005.x | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 134 | issue = 2 | pages = 141–256 | year = 2002 | doi-access = free }}

See also

{{Portal|Paleontology}}

References