Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1874. Notice of new equine mammals from the Tertiary formation. American Journal of Science 7(39):247-258
Parent taxon: Equini according to B. J. MacFadden 1998
See also Carroll 1988, Cope 1879, FerrusquÃa-Villafranca et al. 2014, Forsten 1975, Gidley 1903, Gidley 1904, Gidley 1907, Hay 1902, Hulbert 1989, Kelly 1995, Matthew and Stirton 1930, Prado and Alberdi 1996, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Quinn 1955, Scott 1913 and Stirton 1940
Sister taxa: Allohippus, Boreohippidion, Calippus, Dinohippus, Equus, Equus proversus, Heteropliohippus, Hippidion, Parapliohippus, Plesippus, Pliohippina, Protohippina, Protohippus
Subtaxa: Pliohippus (Astrohippus) Pliohippus (Pliohippus) Pliohippus bakeri Pliohippus coalingensis Pliohippus fossulatus Pliohippus gracilis Pliohippus mirabilis Pliohippus nobilis Pliohippus pernix Pliohippus potosinus Pliohippus tantalus Pliohippus tehonensis
Type: Pliohippus pernix
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (2: California collections)
• Hemphillian of United States (23: California, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (3: California, Oklahoma)
• Miocene of Mexico (1), United States (122: California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 151 collections including 156 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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