Sifrhippus grangeri Gingerich 1989 (horse)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Alternative combinations: Arenahippus grangeri, Hyracotherium grangeri

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich. 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

Belongs to Sifrhippus according to R. Secord et al. 2012

See also Froehlich 2002, Gingerich 1989, MacFadden 1998 and Wood et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Sifrhippus sandrae, Arenahippus pernix, Arenahippus aemulor

Type specimen: AMNH 16134, a maxilla (left maxilla fragment with P3–M3)

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (185: Colorado, Wyoming collections)

Total: 185 collections each including a single occurrence

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