Hypohippus osborni Gidley 1907 (anchitheriine horse)

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

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