Erihippus

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Erihippus
Temporal range: Ypresian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Erihippus
Species:
E. tingae
Binomial name
Erihippus tingae
Bai et. al., 2018

Erihippus is an extinct genus of equid that lived during the early Ypresian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

Erihippus tingae is known from the Lingcha Formation of China. [1]

References

  1. Bai, Bin; Wang, Yuan-Qing; Meng, Jin (15 August 2018). "The divergence and dispersal of early perissodactyls as evidenced by early Eocene equids from Asia". Communications Biology . 1 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0116-5. ISSN   2399-3642. PMC   6123789 . Retrieved 30 April 2025.