Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Hippotherium quinni
Full reference: M. O. Woodburne. 1996. Reappraisal of the Cormohipparion from the Valentine Formation, Nebraska. American Museum Novitates 3163:1-56
Belongs to Cormohipparion according to V. M. Bravo-Cuevas and I. Ferrusquia-Villafranca 2008
See also Alroy 2007, Woodburne 1996 and Woodburne 2007
Sister taxa: Cormohipparion (Cormohipparion), Cormohipparion (Notiocradohipparion), Cormohipparion emsliei, Cormohipparion fricki, Cormohipparion goorisi, Cormohipparion ingenuum, Cormohipparion johnsoni, Cormohipparion matthewi, Cormohipparion merriami, Cormohipparion occidentale, Cormohipparion plicatile, Cormohipparion skinneri, Cormohipparion sphenodus
Type specimen: F:AM 71888, a skull. Its type locality is Devil's Gulch Horse Quarry, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Valentine Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Costa Rica (1 collection), Mexico (1), United States (9: Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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