Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Full reference: J. L. Wortman. 1896. Species Of Hyracotherium And Allied Perissodactyls From the Wahsatch and Wind River Beds of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 8(6):6-109
Parent taxon: Equidae according to D. J. Froehlich 2002
See also Froehlich 1999, Gingerich 1991, Granger 1908, Hay 1902, Matthew 1909, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Robinson 1966, Schiebout 1974 and Stirton 1940
Sister taxa: Anchitheriinae, Duchesnehippus, Eohippus, Epihippus, Equinae, Erihippus, Gobihippus, Hipphaplus, Hyperhippidium, Hypohippidium, Hyracotheriinae, Lophiopus, Minippus, Orohippus, Plesiohipparion, Pliolophus, Protohippinae, Sifrhippus, Sivalhippus, Xenicohippus
Subtaxa: Protorohippus montanum Protorohippus venticolum
Type: Eohippus venticolus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (31: Colorado, Wyoming collections)
Total: 31 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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