Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Hipparion leptode
Full reference: J. C. Merriam. 1915. New species of the Hipparion group from the Pacific Coast and Great Basin provinces of North America. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(1):1-8
Belongs to Neohipparion according to B. J. MacFadden 1998
See also Hulbert 1987, Macdonald 1992, MacFadden 1984, Merriam 1915, Merriam et al. 1925, Osborn 1918, Stirton 1940 and Stock 1951
Sister taxa: Neohipparion affine, Neohipparion eurystyle, Neohipparion gidleyi, Neohipparion sanjuanensis, Neohipparion trampasense
Type specimen: UCMP 19414, a tooth (an isolated lower molar). Its type locality is Thousand Creek Formation, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Thousand Creek Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (11: California, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas collections)
• Miocene of United States (3: Nebraska)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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