Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Full reference: M. F. Skinner and B. J. MacFadden. 1977. Cormohipparion n. gen. (Mammalia, Equidae) from the North American Miocene (Barstovian-Clarendonian). Journal of Paleontology 51(5):912-926
Parent taxon: Hipparionini according to S. R. May 2019
See also Alroy 2007, Bravo-Cuevas and Ferrusquia-Villafranca 2008, Hulbert and Whitmore 2006, Kelly 1995, MacFadden 1998, Manning and MacFadden 1989, Prothero and Schoch 1989 and Skinner and MacFadden 1977
Sister taxa: Eurygnathohippus, Hipparion, Hipparion anthonyi, Hippotherium, Hippotherium sinclairi, Nannippus, Neohipparion, Pseudhipparion
Subtaxa: Cormohipparion (Cormohipparion) Cormohipparion (Notiocradohipparion) Cormohipparion emsliei Cormohipparion fricki Cormohipparion goorisi Cormohipparion ingenuum Cormohipparion johnsoni Cormohipparion matthewi Cormohipparion merriami Cormohipparion occidentale Cormohipparion plicatile Cormohipparion quinni Cormohipparion skinneri Cormohipparion sphenodus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (3: Florida collections)
• Pliocene of India (1)
• Hemphillian of Honduras (4), United States (29: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (5: California, Florida, Oklahoma)
• Miocene of Costa Rica (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (73: California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 118 collections including 137 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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