Pseudhipparion | |
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Pseudhipparion retrusum skull, Museo di Paleontologia di Firenze | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Subfamily: | Equinae |
Tribe: | † Hipparionini |
Genus: | † Pseudhipparion Ameghino, 1904 |
Species | |
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Pseudhipparion is an extinct genus of three-toed horse endemic to North America during the Miocene. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] They were herding animals whose diet consisted of C3 plants. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Fossils found in Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Montana, Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, and South Dakota indicate that it was a lightweight horse, weighing up to 90 pounds (40 kilograms). [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] In 2005, fossils were unearthed in Oklahoma. [22] Seven species of Pseudhipparion are known from the fossil record which were very small, following the trend of Bergmann's rule. [23]