Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Synonyms: Hemihipparion Wehrli 1941, Hipparitherium Christol 1847, Stylohipparion van Hoepen 1932
Full reference: J. de Christol. 1832. Description d'Hipparion. Annales des Sciences et de l'Industrie du Midi de France 1:180-181
Parent taxon: Hipparionini according to S. R. May 2019
See also Alroy 2002, Bernor 1985, Boessenecker 2011, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Cope 1893, Geraads et al. 2004, Gidley 1907, Hay 1902, Kelly 1995, Leidy 1873, MacFadden 1984, MacFadden 1998, Osborn 1918, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Quinn 1955, Scott 1913, Sondaar 1974, Stirton 1940, Theodorou et al. 2003, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Tsoukala et al. 2007 and Vlachou and Koufos 2002
Sister taxa: Cormohipparion, Eurygnathohippus, Hipparion anthonyi, Hippotherium, Hippotherium sinclairi, Nannippus, Neohipparion, Pseudhipparion
Subtaxa: Hipparion (Proboscidipparion) Hipparion campbelli Hipparion chiai Hipparion concudense Hipparion condoni Hipparion crassum Hipparion depereti Hipparion dietrichi Hipparion fissurae Hipparion forcei Hipparion gettyi Hipparion gromovae Hipparion laromae Hipparion longipes Hipparion macedonicum Hipparion matthewi Hipparion mediterraneum Hipparion minus Hipparion molayanense Hipparion periafricanum Hipparion phlegrae Hipparion prostylum Hipparion richthofeni Hipparion rocinantis Hipparion sellardsi Hipparion shirleyae Hipparion sitifense Hipparion tehonense Hipparion theniusi Hipparion weihoense
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Azerbaijan (2), China (2), Djibouti (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (69), France (1), Greece (1), Kenya (42), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Tanzania (18), Turkey (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (3), Malawi (2), South Africa (1), Turkey (1)
• Pliocene of Armenia (1), Bulgaria (1), China (17), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (29), Georgia (2), Greece (8), Hungary (2), India (3), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (3), Kenya (7), Malawi (2), Moldova (2), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (5), Spain (6), Tanzania (22), Turkey (1), Uganda (1), Ukraine (8)
• MN 13 of China (1), Moldova (3), Portugal (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (7: Florida, Kansas, Oklahoma)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (4), Greece (2), Kazakhstan (5), Kenya (2), Mongolia (1), South Africa (4), Turkey (1), Uganda (14), Ukraine (1), United States (1: California)
• Neogene of Ukraine (3)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (3), Austria (4), Bulgaria (3), Chad (1), China (28), Ethiopia (2), France (3), Georgia (2), Germany (1), Greece (49), Hungary (1), India (2), Iran (1), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (4), Kyrgyzstan (1), Lebanon (1), Moldova (8), Myanmar (1), Nepal (1), Pakistan (7), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (16), Syria (1), Tajikistan (3), Thailand (2), Tunisia (4), Turkey (6), Uganda (5), Ukraine (14), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (46: California, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Washington)
Total: 570 collections including 646 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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