Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combinations: Equus proversus, Plesippus proversus
Full reference: J. C. Merriam. 1916. Relationship of Equus to Pliohippus Suggested by Characters of a New Species From the Pliocene of California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(18):525-534
Belongs to Pliohippus according to J. C. Merriam 1916
See also Gazin 1936, Kelly 1998, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Macdonald 1992, Matthew 1924, Matthew and Stirton 1930, Osborn 1918, Russell and VanderHoof 1931, Savage 1951, Schultz 1936, Schultz 1937, Stirton 1940 and Winans 1989
Sister taxa: Pliohippus (Astrohippus), Pliohippus (Pliohippus), Pliohippus bakeri, Pliohippus coalingensis, Pliohippus fossulatus, Pliohippus gracilis, Pliohippus mirabilis, Pliohippus nobilis, Pliohippus pernix, Pliohippus potosinus, Pliohippus tantalus, Pliohippus tehonensis
Type specimen: UCMP 21330, a tooth (a superior molar, m1 or m2, of the left side)
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Sand Hollow Gulch- South (Pliocene of Montana)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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