Pseudhipparion Temporal range: Barstovian–Hemphillian ~15.97–5.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Pseudhipparion retrusum skull, Museo di Paleontologia di Firenze | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Subfamily: | Equinae |
Tribe: | †Hipparionini |
Genus: | †Pseudhipparion Ameghino, 1904 |
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Pseudhipparion is an extinct genus of three-toed horse endemic to North America during the Miocene. They were herding animals whose diet consisted of C3 plants. Fossils found in Georgia and Florida indicate that it was a lightweight horse, weighing up to 90 pounds (40 kilograms). In 2005, fossils were unearthed in Oklahoma. Seven species of Pseudhipparion are known from the fossil record which were very small, following the trend of Bergmann's rule.
References
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- S.D. Webb, Richard C. Hulbert; Hulbert (Jan 1986). "Systematics and evolution of Pseudhipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Neogene of the Gulf Coastal Plain and the Great Plains". Rocky Mountain Geology. 24: 237–272. doi:10.2113/gsrocky.24.special_paper_3.237. ISBN 0941570029.
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Extinct genera of Equidae (Horse family), arranged by subfamily | |||||||||
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Pseudhipparion |