Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Full reference: M. O. Woodburne. 2007. Phyletic diversification of the Cormohipparion occidentale complex (Mammalia; Perissodactyla, Equidae), Late Miocene, North America, and the origin of the Old World Hippotherium datum. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 306(1):1-138
Belongs to Cormohipparion according to M. O. Woodburne 2007
Sister taxa: Cormohipparion (Cormohipparion), Cormohipparion (Notiocradohipparion), Cormohipparion emsliei, Cormohipparion fricki, Cormohipparion goorisi, Cormohipparion ingenuum, Cormohipparion matthewi, Cormohipparion merriami, Cormohipparion occidentale, Cormohipparion plicatile, Cormohipparion quinni, Cormohipparion skinneri, Cormohipparion sphenodus
Type specimen: F:AM. 71891, a partial skull. Its type locality is Burge Quarry, which is in a Barstovian/Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Valentine Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: found only at Burge Quarry
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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