Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Hyracotherium aemulor
Full reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Perissodactyla (Mammalia) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(8):181-213
Belongs to Arenahippus according to D. J. Froehlich 2002
See also Gingerich 1991 and MacFadden 1998
Sister taxa: Sifrhippus grangeri, Sifrhippus sandrae, Arenahippus pernix
Type specimen: UMMP 71523, a mandible (left and right mandibles with rightI1toM3andleftI2toM3). Its type locality is SC-34, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (116: Wyoming collections)
Total: 116 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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