Restoration↑Pholidocercus hassiacus von Koenigswald and Storch 1983 with partially preserved fur and long, thick, scaled tail. Paratype of the publication
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.
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...
an early carnivorous mammal Messelogale, an early carnivorous mammal Pholidocercus, an early hedgehog Macrocranion, an early long-tailed hedgehog Masillamys...
region, Leptictidium shared its habitat with animals such as Godinotia, Pholidocercus, Palaeotis, or Propalaeotherium. There were also predators, the crocodilian...
Koenigswald, W.; Storch, G. (1983). "Fossilfundstelle Messel, Nr. 36: Pholidocercus hassiacus, ein Amphilemuride aus dem Eozän der "Grube Messel" bei Darmstadt...
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