Amerhippus

Amerhippus
Temporal range: Pleistocene (Uquian-Lujanian)
~2.588–0.012 Ma
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Skull of Amerhippus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
Subgenus: Amerhippus
Type species
Equus andium
Branco, 1883
Species
  • Equus (Amerhippus) andium
  • Equus (Amerhippus) insulatus
  • Equus (Amerhippus) martinei
  • Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus
  • Equus (Amerhippus) santaeelenae

Amerhippus is an extinct subgenus of Equus which includes several species of horses that lived in South America. Fossils have been recovered from the Tarija Formation of Bolivia, the Serranía del Perijá in Venezuela, the Chiu-Chiu Formation of Chile, the Sabana Formation of the Bogotá savanna in Colombia,[1] and from various locations in Ecuador.[2] The genus was living from 2.588 to 0.012 Mya. It measured roughly 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height and approximately 400 kilograms (880 lb) in weight.

  • Statue in Osorno, Chile
  • Restoration of hippidiforms with grazing Amerhippus in the background

References

  1. ↑ De Porta, 1960
  2. ↑ Prado, J. L.; Alberdi, M. A. T.; De Reyes, M. N. L.; Poiré, D. G.; Canalicchio, J. M. (2013). "New material of Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the late Pleistocene of Olavarría (Argentina)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 269 (2): 125. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0340.

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