Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Parahippus nebrascensis
Full reference: O. A. Peterson. 1907. The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4(3):21-72
Belongs to Desmatippus according to B. J. MacFadden 1998
See also Osborn 1918, Peterson 1907, Schlaikjer 1937 and Stirton 1940
Sister taxa: Desmatippus avus, Desmatippus crenidens, Desmatippus integer, Desmatippus texanus, Desmatippus tyleri, Anchippus riparius
Subtaxa: Parahippus nebrascensis primus
Type specimen: CM 1440, a partial skeleton (a skull with the left mandible practically complete, the pelvis, the right femur, tibia, calcaneum, astragalus, and the proximal end of a metapodial of one indi). Its type locality is Niobrara Canyon, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Marsland Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Harrisonian of Canada (1: Saskatchewan collection), United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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