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Protohippini (protohippines)
Taxonomy
Protohippini was named by Quinn (1955). It was considered monophyletic by Prado and Alberdi (1996).
It was reranked as the subtribe Protohippina by Hulbert (1988) and Prado and Alberdi (1996).
It was assigned to Equini by Hulbert (1988) and Prado and Alberdi (1996); and to Equinae by Quinn (1955), Kelly (1995) and Hulbert and Whitmore (2006).
It was reranked as the subtribe Protohippina by Hulbert (1988) and Prado and Alberdi (1996).
It was assigned to Equini by Hulbert (1988) and Prado and Alberdi (1996); and to Equinae by Quinn (1955), Kelly (1995) and Hulbert and Whitmore (2006).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1955 | Protohippini Quinn p. 13 |
| 1988 | Protohippina Hulbert, Jr. p. 231 |
| 1995 | Protohippini Kelly p. 24 |
| 1996 | Protohippina Prado and Alberdi p. 676 |
| 2006 | Protohippini Hulbert and Whitmore p. 17 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Tr. †Protohippini Quinn 1955 [protohippines]
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. H. Quinn 1955 | Potocone small and rounded to oval; parastylid sloping diagonally across anterior face of teeth and reduced to absent in late forms; pli caballinid absent. |
Measurements
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| Source: subf = subfamily, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, MacFadden 1998 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available