Hypohippus

Hypohippus ("Low horse") is an extinct genus of three-toed horse, which lived 17–11 million years ago.[1] It was the size of a pony, and fossils of it have been found in Nebraska, Colorado, and Montana.[2]

Restoration

Hypohippus
Temporal range: Barstovian-Clarendonian
~15.97–10.3 Ma
Hypohippus osborni skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Subfamily: †Anchitheriinae
Genus: †Hypohippus
Leidy, 1858
Species
  • H. affinis Leidy 1858
  • H. osborni

References
  1. Janis, C. M.; Damuth, J.; Theodor, J. M. (2002). "The origins and evolution of the North American grassland biome: The story from the hoofed mammals". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 177: 183. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00359-5.
  2. Hypohippus
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