Neohipparion

Neohipparion
Neohipparion affine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Neohipparion
Gidley, 1903
Species
  • N. affine
  • N. eurystyle
  • N. gidleyi
  • N. leptode
  • N. trampasense

Neohipparion is an extinct genus of equid,[1] from the Neogene (Miocene to Pliocene) of North America and Central America.

Restoration of N. affine
Mare and foal at Ashfall Fossil Beds

References

  1. Clementz, M. T. (2012). "New insight from old bones: Stable isotope analysis of fossil mammals". Journal of Mammalogy 93 (2): 368–380. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-S-179.1.


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