Haplohippus

Haplohippus
Temporal range: 42.–38.0 Ma
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 Duchesnean[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: †Haplohippus
McGrew 1953
Species[1]
  • Haplohippus texanus
Restoration of Haplohippus (middle right) and other animals of the Hancock Mammal Quarry

Haplohippus is an extinct genus of the modern horse family Equidae, that lived in the Eocene, from 42 to 38 million years ago. Fossil remains of Haplohippus have been found in the Clarno Formation, part of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument of the Northwestern United States.[2] While Haplohippus is quite similar to Orohippus, it is considered more primitive in character than Epihippus.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Haplohippus". fossilworks.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
  2. ^ Kenworthy, J.P.; Santucci, V. L.; McNerney, M.; Snell, K. (2005). Paleontological Resource Inventory and Monitoring, Upper Columbia Basin Network (PDF). National Park Service. TIC #D259.
  3. ^ MacFadden, Bruce J. 1976 "Cladistic Analysis of Primitive Equids, with Notes on Other Perissodactyls" Systematic Zoology 25(1):1-14


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