Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
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 Galbreath 1953 and Macdonald 1992
Sister taxa: Merychippus (Merychippus), Merychippus (Protohippus), Merychippus brevidontus, Merychippus calamarius, Merychippus californicus, Merychippus coloradense, Merychippus eohipparion, 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 9347, a partial skeleton (lower jaw, cervicals, fore and hind feet, humerus, ulno-radius, parts of femur and tibia, all of one individual)
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Merychippus eoplacidus in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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