Desmatippus

Desmatippus
Desmatippus tyleri composite skeleton, National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Subfamily: †Anchitheriinae
Genus: †Desmatippus
Scott 1893
Type species
†Desmatippus crenidens
Species
  • D. avus Marsh 1874
  • D. crenidens Scott 1893

Desmatippus is an extinct, three-toed, browsing member of the Equidae. It lived in what is now North America during the Miocene period (about 23 mya to 5 mya). Desmatippus was 60 cm in height and 20 kg in weight.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bruce J. MacFadden (1994). Fossil Horses: Systematics, Paleobiology, and Evolution of the Family Equidae. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47708-6.[page needed]


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