Hyracotherium, a genus of fossil ungulates, established in 1839 by Owen for a small Eocene animal about the size of a hare, to which, however, he afterwards gave the name of Pliolophus. See HORSE.
Hyracotherium
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 53
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