Anchitherium

Anchitherium Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N [1]
Anchitherium aurelianense, Hypohippus equinus , Merychippus sejunctus , and M. sphenodus fossils in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Subfamily:	† Anchitheriinae
Genus:	† Anchitherium von Meyer, 1844
Type species
Anchitherium aurelianense
Species [1] [2] [3] [4]
A. alberdiae A. aurelianense A. australis A. castellanum A. clarencei A. corcolense A. cursor A. ezquerrae A. gobiense A. hippoides A. matritense A. navasotae A. parequinum A. procerum

Anchitherium (meaning near beast) is a genus of extinct equid with a three-toed hoof.

Mandibles

Anchitherium was a browsing (leaf eating) horse that originated in the early Miocene of North America, being found as far south as Panama, ^[5] and subsequently dispersed to Europe and Asia, ^{[3] [4]} where it gave rise to the larger bodied genus Sinohippus . ^[1] It was around 60 centimetres (6.0 hands ) high at the shoulder, and probably represented a side-branch of horse evolution that left no modern descendants. ^[6]

References

1. Salesa, M.J., Sánchez, I.M., and Morales, J. 2004. Presence of the Asian horse Sinohippus in the Miocene of Europe. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 49(2):189-196.
2. Sánchez, I.M., Salesa, M.J., and Morales, J. 1998. Revisión sistemática del género Anchitherium Meyer, 1834 (Equidae; Perissodactyla) en España. Estudios Geológicos, 55(1-2):1-37
3. Ye, J.; W.-Y. Wu; J. Meng (2005). "Anchitherium (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Halamagai Formation of Northern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 43 (2): 100–109. Archived from the original on 2016-10-12.(in Chinese with English summary).
4. MacFadden, B.J. 2001. Three-toed browsing horse Anchitherium clarencei from the early Miocene (Hemingfordian) Thomas Farm, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 43(3):79-109.
5. MacFadden, Bruce J. (2009). "Three-toed browsing horse Anchitherium (Equidae) from the Miocene of Panama". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (3): 489. Bibcode:2009JPal...83..489M. doi:10.1666/08-155.1. hdl:10088/15923. ISSN   0022-3360.
6. Palmer, D., ed. (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 274. ISBN   1-84028-152-9.

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