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
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Kenya (3)
• Hemphillian of United States (10: 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 (82: California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 139 collections including 142 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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