Sifrhippus

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Sifrhippus
Fossil range: Early Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: †Sifrhippus
Froehlich, 2002
Binomial name
†Sifrhippus sandrae
(Gingerich, 1989)

Sifrhippus ("zero horse") is an extinct genus of horse. Sifrhippus is the oldest horse known from North America, and its fossils come from the earliest Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.[1][2] Sifrhippus was a very small horse the size of a house cat.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Gingerich, P.D. (1989). "New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage". University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28: 1–97. 
  2. ^ Froehlich, D.J. (2002). "Quo vadis eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (2): 141–256. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00005.x. 


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