Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alternative combination: Pliohippus leardi
Full reference: A. B. Drescher. 1941. Later Tertiary Equidae from the Tejon Hills, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 530(1):1-23
Belongs to Dinohippus according to T. S. Kelly 1998
See also Drescher 1941, Hulbert 1993, MacFadden 1998, Quinn 1955 and Whistler and Burbank 1992
Sister taxa: Dinohippus interpolatus, Dinohippus leidyanus, Dinohippus mexicanus, Dinohippus osborni, Dinohippus spectans, Dinohippus subvenus
Type specimen: Its type locality is North Tejon Hills, which is in a Tortonian terrestrial horizon in the Chanac Formation of California
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California collection)
• Miocene of United States (10: California, Nevada)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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