Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combinations: Hipparion plicatile, Hippotherium plicatile, Neohipparion plicatile
Full reference: J. Leidy. 1887. Fossil bones from Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 39(3):309-310
Belongs to Cormohipparion according to M. O. Woodburne 2007
See also Alroy 2007, Cope 1889, Gidley 1907, Hay 1902, Hulbert 1988, Leidy 1887, Leidy and Lucas 1896, Macdonald 1992, MacFadden 1998, Matthew 1909, Matthew 1924, Merriam 1913, Osborn 1918, Simpson 1930, Stirton 1940 and Webb and Perrigo 1984
Sister taxa: Cormohipparion (Cormohipparion), Cormohipparion (Notiocradohipparion), Cormohipparion emsliei, Cormohipparion fricki, Cormohipparion goorisi, Cormohipparion ingenuum, Cormohipparion johnsoni, Cormohipparion matthewi, Cormohipparion merriami, Cormohipparion occidentale, Cormohipparion quinni, Cormohipparion skinneri, Cormohipparion sphenodus
Type specimen: USNM 3292, a tooth (an upper molar of the right side). Its type locality is Mixson's Bone Bed, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Alachua Formation of Florida.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of Honduras (1 collection), United States (10: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of United States (8: Florida)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.