Hippotherium

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Hippotherium
Temporal range: 15–11 Ma
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Middle to Late Miocene
Hipparion.JPG
Skeleton of Hippotherium primigenium, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Subfamily: Equinae
Tribe: †Hipparionini
Genus: †Hippotherium
Kaup, 1832
Species
  • H. primigenius (von Meyer, 1829) (type species)
  • H. weihoense (Liu et al. 1978)
  • H. koenigswaldi (Sondaar, 1961)
  • H. catalaunicum (Perlot, 1956)

Hippotherium is an extinct genus of horse that lived in during the Miocene through Pliocene ~13.65—3.3 Mya,[citation needed] existing for 10.35 million years.

Species[]

Jaw and teeth
Metapodial
Hippotherium gracile.JPG
Skull
Skeleton of H. primigenius

The type species, H. primigenius, is known from Miocene deposits in Europe and the Middle East, while the species H. koenigswaldi and H. catalaunicum have been found in Miocene deposits in Spain.[citation needed] The Asian hipparionin "Hipparion" weihoense from early Late Miocene deposits in northern China has also been referred to the genus.[1]

Fossil distribution[]

  • Doue-la-Fontaine France estimated age: ~13.65—7.25 Mya.
  • Lower Bakhtiari Formation, northern Iraq, estimated age: ~11.6—9.0 Mya.
  • Kurtchuk-Tchekmedje, Turkey estimated age: ~11.61—5.33 Mya.

References[]

  1. ^ Raymond L. Bernor; Shiqi Wang; Yan Liu; Yu Chen; Boyang Sun (2018). "Shanxihippus dermatorhinus comb. nov. with comparisons to old world hipparions with specialized nasal apparati". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 124 (2): 361–386. doi:10.13130/2039-4942/10202.
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