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Pliolophus

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Taxonomy
Pliolophus was named by Owen (1858).

It was reranked as Hyracotherium (Pliolophus) by Wortman (1896); it was synonymized subjectively with Eohippus by Granger (1908); it was synonymized subjectively with Hyracotherium by Kitts (1956), Schiebout (1974) and Gingerich (1991).

It was assigned to Ungulata by Owen (1859); to Hyracotherium by Wortman (1896); to Hyracotheriinae by Cope (1881) and Hay (1902); to Equoidea by Prothero and Schoch (1989); and to Equidae by Hooker (1994), Froehlich (2002) and Hooker and Dashzeveg (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Pliolophus Owen p. 162
1859Pliolophus Owen p. 162
1881Pliolophus Cope p. 381
1896Hyracotherium (Pliolophus) Wortman p. 83
1902Pliolophus Hay p. 610
1989Pliolophus Prothero and Schoch p. 531
1994Pliolophus Hooker
2002Pliolophus Froehlich p. 151
2004Pliolophus Hooker and Dashzeveg p. 1374

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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
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
superfamilyEquoidea
familyEquidae
genusPliolophusOwen 1858

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. †Pliolophus Owen 1858
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Pliolophus barnesi Hooker 2010
Pliolophus quesnoyensis Bronnert et al. 2017
Pliolophus vulpiceps Owen 1858
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available