Cremohipparion Temporal range: Mid Miocene to Pliocene, 23–3.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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C. mediterraneum skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Genus: | †Cremohipparion Qiu Zhanxiang, Huang Weilong & Guo Zhihui, 1987 |
Species | |
Cremohipparion is an extinct genus of equid that lived in Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene through Pliocene.
Its habitat or biome consisted of non-forested, grassy plains, shortgrass prairie or steppes.
Taxonomy
Cremohipparion was originally coined as a subgenus of Hipparion for a number of Eurasian species. Later, Bernor and Tobien (1989) elevated Cremohipparion to full generic status in their description of small hipparionin specimens from Samos, Greece.
References
- ^ QIU, Z., HUANG. W. AND GUO, Z., 1987. The Chinese hipparionine fossils (In Chinese, with an English summary). Paleontol. Sin., N.S., C.25: 1-243.
- Bernor R.L.; Tobien H., 1989: Two small species of cremohipparion equidae mammalia from samos greece. Mitteilungen Der Bayerischen Staatssammlung Fuer Palaeontologie Und Historische Geologie.(29): 207-226
Extinct genera of Equidae (Horse family), arranged by subfamily | |||||||||
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Basal forms | |||||||||
Anchitheriinae | |||||||||
Equinae |
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Taxon identifiers | |
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Cremohipparion |