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Allacerops

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Eggysodontidae

Taxonomy
Allacerops was named by Wood (1932). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Eggysodon by Prothero and Schoch (1989) and de Bonis and Brunet (1995).

It was assigned to Hyracodontidae by Radinsky (1966), Carroll (1988) and Wang and Qiu (2004); to Eggysodontinae by Bai and Wang (2012); and to Eggysodontidae by Wang et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Allacerops Wood
1966Allacerops Radinsky p. 635
1988Allacerops Carroll
2004Allacerops Wang and Qiu p. 136
2012Allacerops Bai and Wang
2016Allacerops Wang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyEggysodontidaeBreuning 1923
genusAllaceropsWood 1932

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Allacerops Wood 1932
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Allacerops gaudryi Rames 1886
Allacerops minor Belayeva 1954
Allacerops osborniana Schlosser 1902
Allacerops pomeli Roman 1910
Allacerops turgaica Borissiak 1915
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingsubo
Diet: browsersubo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-31 15:03:12
Modified: 2005-08-31 17:03:12
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Colbert and Schoch 1998

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the Chattian or 37.20000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Mongolia (Dornogov) A. sp. (174716)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Mongolia A. minor (177035)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4China (Gansu) A. sp. (77998) A. turgaica (176019 182899)
Late/Upper Oligocene28.4 - 23.03Georgia A. sp. (182744)
Late/Upper Oligocene28.4 - 23.03Kazakhstan (Aktyubinskaya) Epiaceratherium turgaicum (73994) Epiaceretherium sp. (74001)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Eggysodon pomeli (125329)