Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Pliohippus (Pliohippus) tantalus
Full reference: J. C. Merriam. 1913. New Protohippine Horses From Tertiary Beds on the Western Border of the Mohave Desert. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 7(23):435-442
Belongs to Protohippus according to J. C. Merriam 1913
See also Kelly 1995, Kelly 1998, Macdonald 1992, MacFadden 1998, Merriam 1913, Merriam 1915, Osborn 1918 and Stirton 1940
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UCMP 19434 and 21221, a set of teeth (Two large upper cheek teeth). Its type locality is Ricardo, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Dove Spring Formation of California.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: found only at Ricardo
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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