Proboscidipparion Temporal range: | |
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Skulls of Proboscidipparion pater | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Subfamily: | Equinae |
Tribe: | † Hipparionini |
Genus: | † Proboscidipparion Sefve, 1927 |
Species | |
†P. heintzi |
Proboscidipparion is an extinct genus of hipparionine equine. It is named after its unusual retracted nasal region of the skull, which may have supported a proboscis. [1] Fossils have been found throughout Eurasia, from England (Red Crag) to China. [2] [3] The oldest specimens are known from Asia, dating to the Early Pliocene, around 5.3-5 million years ago. The genus was one of the last surviving hipparionines, with the youngest specimen dating to the end of the Early Pleistocene, around 1 million years ago. [1]
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