Hippotherium Kaup 1832 (hipparionine horse)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Parent taxon: Hipparionini according to J. Alroy 2008

See also Alroy 2002, Böhme et al. 2017, Cope 1881, Cope 1889, Hay 1902, Leidy 1860, MacFadden 1998, Osborn 1918, Owen 1848, Pesquero et al. 2006 and Prothero and Schoch 1989

Sister taxa: Cormohipparion, Eurygnathohippus, Hipparion, Hipparion anthonyi, Hippotherium sinclairi, Nannippus, Neohipparion, Pseudhipparion

Subtaxa: Hippotherium primigenium

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Kenya (3)

• Hemphillian of United States (11: Florida, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Bulgaria (5), El Salvador (1), Ethiopia (1), France (1), Greece (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Mexico (2), Moldova (2), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (4), Tunisia (3), Turkey (4), United States (85: California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas)

Total: 143 collections including 146 occurrences

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