Acritohippus
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| Acritohippus Temporal range: Miocene
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| File:Acritohippus isonesus.jpg | |
| A. isonesus skeleton | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Equidae |
| Subfamily: | Equinae |
| Genus: | †Acritohippus Kelly, 1995 |
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Acritohippus is an extinct genus of Miocene area equine from North America.[1] Fossils of Acritohippus have been found in Florida,[2][3] New Mexico,[4] Montana,[5] California,[6][7] and Oregon, where its fossils were first unearthed and described as a species of Merychippus back in 1928.[8][9][10] It was a grazer that ate C4 grasses.[11][12][13]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ T. S. Kelly. 1995. New Miocene horses from the Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley Badlands, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 455:1-33
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