Pholidocercus
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| Pholidocercus Temporal range: Early Eocene,
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| File:HMNS Pholidocercus hassiacus.jpg | |
| P. hassiacus at the HMNS | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | †Amphilemuridae |
| Genus: | †Pholidocercus von Koenigswald & Storch, 1983 |
| Type species | |
| P. hassiacus von Koenigswald & Storch, 1983
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Pholidocercus is an extinct monotypic genus of mammal from the Messel pit related to and resembling the modern-day hedgehog with a single species, Pholidocercus hassiacus. Like the hedgehog, it was covered in thin spines. Unlike hedgehogs, it had scales on its head in a helmet-like formation, and had a long, thick, scaled tail.
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