Plagiolophus javali, Oligocene, FR
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Product information "Plagiolophus javali, Oligocene, FR"
A rarity!
Here are two vertebrae from an early mammal found in France!
The site is no longer accessible, and all specimens still available on the market come from old collections!
Period: Oligocene;
Location: Aquitaine, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Size: approx. 7 x 1.5 x 2 cm
Plagiolophus (Ancient Greek: πλάγιος (oblique) + λόφος (crest), meaning “oblique crest”) is an extinct genus of equids belonging to the family Palaeotheriidae. It lived in Europe from the Middle Eocene to the Early Oligocene. The type species, P. minor, was described in 1804 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier based on fossils from the Paris Basin in France, including a skeleton that is now lost. Cuvier assigned the species to the genus Palaeotherium, and in 1847, Auguste Pomel assigned it to the new subgenus Plagiolophus. Plagiolophus was elevated to genus status by later paleontologists and today comprises up to seventeen species. As the French paleontologist Jean A. Remy proposed in 2004, it comprises three subgenera: Plagiolophus, Paloplotherium, and Fraasiolophus.
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