Cormohipparion
Extinct genus of horse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cormohipparion is an extinct genus of horse belonging to the tribe Hipparionini that lived in North America during the late Miocene to Pliocene (Hemphillian to Blancan in the NALMA classification).[1] They grew up to 3 feet (0.91 meters) long.[2][3]
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Cormohipparion | |
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Cormohipparion and Teleoceras in the Ashfall Fossil Beds | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Subfamily: | Equinae |
Tribe: | †Hipparionini |
Genus: | †Cormohipparion Skinner & MacFadden, 1977 |
Type species | |
†Hipparion occidentale | |
Subgenera and species | |
†Cormohipparion
†Notiocradohipparion
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