Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Anchitherium osborni
Full reference: J. W. Gidley. 1907. Revision of the Miocene and Pliocene Equidae of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23(35):865-934
Belongs to Hypohippus according to B. J. MacFadden 1998
See also Galbreath 1953, Gidley 1907, Henshaw 1942, Osborn 1918, Scharf 1935, Stirton 1940 and Wallace 1946
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 9407, a skeleton. Its type locality is Pawnee Buttes (Upper Beds), which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in Colorado.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (4: Saskatchewan collections), United States (23: California, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 27 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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