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Alicornops

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Alicornops
Temporal range: Miocene–Early Pliocene
Alicornops simorrense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily: Aceratheriinae
Genus: Alicornops
Ginsburg & Guerin, 1979
Type species
Alicornops simorrense
Lartet, 1851[1]
Species
  • 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.[2]

The type species Alicornops simorrense was a relatively small aceratheriine with a small horn, short tridactyl legs and strongly curved lower incisors.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Alicornops simorrense". MNHN France.
  2. ^ Kahn, A.M. (2013). "New Alicornops (Rhinocerotidae) remains from Lower and Middle Siwaliks, Pakistan". Annales de Paléontologie. 99 (2): 131–155. Bibcode:2013AnPal..99..131K. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2012.10.003. hdl:11336/4824.
  3. ^ Henke, Winfried; Tattersall, Ian (2007). Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I:Principles, Methods and Approaches Vol II:Primate Evolution and Human Origins Vol III:Phylogeny of Hominids. Springer. p. 981.