Sifrhippus sandrae Gingerich 1989 (horse)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Alternative combination: Hyracotherium sandrae

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97

Belongs to Sifrhippus according to R. Secord et al. 2012

See also Froehlich 2002, Gingerich 1989, MacFadden 1998 and Rose et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Sifrhippus grangeri, Arenahippus pernix, Arenahippus aemulor

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Eocene of Belgium (1 collection), United States (23: Wyoming)

Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence

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