Hippotherium Temporal range: Miocene
Middle to Late
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Skeleton of Hippotherium primigenium, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Subfamily: | Equinae |
Tribe: | † Hipparionini |
Genus: | †
Hippotherium Kaup, 1832 |
Species | |
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Hippotherium is an extinct genus of horse that lived in during the Miocene through Pliocene ~13.65—6.7 Mya, existing for 6.95 million years.
The last known surviving Hippotherium was H. malpassii, found in Italy. [1]
The type species, H. primigenium, is known from Miocene deposits in Europe (e.g., the Hegau region in southern Germany) [2] and the Middle East, while the species H. koenigswaldi and H. catalaunicum have been found in Miocene deposits in Spain.[ citation needed] The Asian hipparionin "Hipparion" weihoense from early Late Miocene deposits in northern China has also been referred to the genus. [3]
H. primigenium was a generalist feeder which frequently browsed but could also exploit grasses. [4]
Hippotherium Temporal range: Miocene
Middle to Late
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Skeleton of Hippotherium primigenium, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Subfamily: | Equinae |
Tribe: | † Hipparionini |
Genus: | †
Hippotherium Kaup, 1832 |
Species | |
|
Hippotherium is an extinct genus of horse that lived in during the Miocene through Pliocene ~13.65—6.7 Mya, existing for 6.95 million years.
The last known surviving Hippotherium was H. malpassii, found in Italy. [1]
The type species, H. primigenium, is known from Miocene deposits in Europe (e.g., the Hegau region in southern Germany) [2] and the Middle East, while the species H. koenigswaldi and H. catalaunicum have been found in Miocene deposits in Spain.[ citation needed] The Asian hipparionin "Hipparion" weihoense from early Late Miocene deposits in northern China has also been referred to the genus. [3]
H. primigenium was a generalist feeder which frequently browsed but could also exploit grasses. [4]