Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Merychippus goorisi
Full reference: B. J. MacFadden and M. F. Skinner. 1981. Earliest Holarctic hipparion, Cormohipparion goorisi n. sp. (Mammalia, Equidae), from the Barstovian (medial Miocene) Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Journal of Paleontology 55(3):619-627
Belongs to Cormohipparion according to M. O. Woodburne 2007
See also Kelly 1995, Kelly 1998, MacFadden 1984, MacFadden 1998, MacFadden and Skinner 1981 and Woodburne 1996
Sister taxa: Cormohipparion (Cormohipparion), Cormohipparion (Notiocradohipparion), Cormohipparion emsliei, Cormohipparion fricki, Cormohipparion ingenuum, Cormohipparion johnsoni, Cormohipparion matthewi, Cormohipparion merriami, Cormohipparion occidentale, Cormohipparion plicatile, Cormohipparion quinni, Cormohipparion skinneri, Cormohipparion sphenodus
Type specimen: F:AM 73940, a skull (well-preserved skull with alveoli for incisors, right canine and pl, and right and left P2-M3)
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (7: Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, Texas collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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