Protorohippus

Protorohippus
	Fossil from the Green River Formation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Genus:	†Protorohippus; Wortman, 1896
Type species
	Protorohippus venticolum; (Cope, 1881)
Species
	†P. venticolum (Cope, 1881); †P. montanum Wortman, 18961;
Synonyms
	Hyracotherium venticolum Cope, 1881; Hyracotherium vasacciense venticolum Kitts, 1956; Eohippus venticolum Granger, 1908;

Protorohippus is an extinct equid that lived in the Eocene of North America.^[1]

Restoration

Skeleton cast

References[]

^ Froehlich, D. J. (2002). "Quo vadis eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134 (2): 141–256. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00005.x.

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[Eohippus-1] Froehlich, D. J. (2002). "Quo vadis eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134 (2): 141–256. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00005.x.

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Protorohippus

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