Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Merychippus (Merychippus) eohipparion
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1918. Equidae of the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene of North America, iconographic type revision. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 2(1):1-217
Belongs to Merychippus according to H. F. Osborn 1918
See also Macdonald 1992 and Stirton 1940
Sister taxa: Merychippus (Merychippus), Merychippus (Protohippus), Merychippus brevidontus, Merychippus calamarius, Merychippus californicus, Merychippus coloradense, Merychippus eoplacidus, Merychippus gunteri, Merychippus insignis, Merychippus isonesus secundus, Merychippus labrosus, Merychippus missouriensis, Merychippus patruus, Merychippus primus, Merychippus proparvulus, Merychippus quartus, Merychippus quintus, Merychippus relictus, Merychippus republicanus, Merychippus sejunctus, Merychippus seversus, Merychippus stevensi
Type specimen: AMNH 9402, a partial skeleton (lower jaws, fore and hind limbs and feet, and several vertebrre, all belonging to a single individual)
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: found only at Eubanks (Miocene of Colorado)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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