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Miohippus quartus
Taxonomy
Miohippus quartus was named by Osborn (1918). Its type specimen is AMNH 7267, a partial skeleton (A skull and fragments of a skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
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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.
†Miohippus quartus Osborn 1918
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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H. F. Osborn 1918 | (Matthew, 1913) (1) About one-seventh shorter and with a muzzle relatively•more slender than the type of M. equiceps. (2) Dentition about one-seventh smaller than that of M. equiceps; (3) molar teeth relatively wider transversely than in M. equicepa or M. brachywphua; (4) no internal cingulum; (5) m3 relatively smaller than M. equiceps or M. brachylophus; (6) incisors of smaller size; (7) canines of much smaller size than in M. equiceps, possibly a sexual character. (8) Infraorbital border of orbit above anterior part of m2 |