Dinohippus spectans Cope 1880

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Alternative combinations: Hippidion spectans, Hippidium spectans, Pliohippus (Pliohippus) spectans, Pliohippus spectans, Protohippus spectans

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1880. A new Hippidium. The American Naturalist 14(3):223

Belongs to Dinohippus according to T. S. Kelly and R. Secord 2009

See also Cope 1893, Cope and Matthew 1915, Creely et al. 1982, Gidley 1907, Hay 1902, Hulbert 1989, Kelly 1995, Kelly 1998, Kelly and Lander 1988, Macdonald 1959, Macdonald 1992, MacFadden 1998, Matthew 1909, Merriam 1917, Merriam and Sinclair 1907, Merriam et al. 1925, Osborn 1918, Quinn 1955, Shotwell 1963 and Stirton 1940

Sister taxa: Dinohippus interpolatus, Dinohippus leardi, Dinohippus leidyanus, Dinohippus mexicanus, Dinohippus osborni, Dinohippus subvenus

Type specimen: AMNH 8183, a set of teeth (a left superior molar, M2, and an associated or referred upper premolar, P2)

Distribution:

• Hemphillian of United States (16: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Texas collections)

• Miocene of United States (3: California, Nevada, Oregon)

Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence

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