Allacerops
Prehistoric mammal
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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 Temporal range: Oligocene, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | †Eggysodontidae |
| Genus: | †Allacerops Wood, 1932 |
| Type species | |
| †Epiaceratherium turgaicum Borissiak, 1915 | |
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Allacerops was synonymized with Eggysodon by Heissig (1989), but is now considered a distinct genus.[2][3][4][5] 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.[6][7][8]
