Misplaced Pages

Anchitheriinae

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is the current revision of this page, as edited by GreenC bot (talk | contribs) at 19:34, 18 November 2024 (Move 1 url. Wayback Medic 2.5 per WP:URLREQ#paleodb.org). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.

Revision as of 19:34, 18 November 2024 by GreenC bot (talk | contribs) (Move 1 url. Wayback Medic 2.5 per WP:URLREQ#paleodb.org)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Extinct subfamily of mammals

Anchitheriinae
Temporal range: 42.0–3.6 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N Middle Eocene to early Pliocene
Hypohippus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Subfamily: Anchitheriinae
Leidy, 1869
Genera

The Anchitheriinae are an extinct subfamily of the Perissodactyla family Equidae, the same family which includes modern horses, zebras and donkeys. This subfamily is more primitive than the living members of the family. The group first appeared with Mesohippus in North America during the middle Eocene and thrived until the late Miocene. The subfamily continued in Eurasia with the genus Sinohippus until the early Pliocene, when it finally became extinct. This subfamily are considered browsers with their more ancestral low-crowned molars, in contrast with the modern, specialized grazer species of modern Equinae.

References

  1. Cantalapiedra, Juan L.; Sanisdro, Oscar L.; Cantero, Enrique; Prado, Jose Luis; Alberdi, Mª Teresa Luis (4 August 2023). "Evolutionary Radiation of Equids". In Prins, Herbert H.; Gordon, Ian J. (eds.). The Equids, A Suite of Splendid Species. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer. pp. 27–45. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-27144-1_2. ISBN 978-3-031-27143-4 – via www.springer.com.
Extinct genera of Equidae (Horse family), arranged by subfamily
Basal forms
Anchitheriinae
Equinae
Hipparionini
Equini
Taxon identifiers
Anchitheriinae


Stub icon

This prehistoric odd-toed ungulate-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This equine-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: