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Pliohippus potosinus
Taxonomy
Pliohippus potosinus was named by Ferrusquía-Villafranca et al. (2014). Its type specimen is IGM-7973, a partial skull (rostral fragment with left I1-M3 and right P2-M2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Paso del Águila , which is in a Miocene terrestrial sandstone in the San Nicolás Formation of Mexico.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Pliohippus potosinus Ferrusquía-Villafranca et al. p. 204 figs. 6, 7 |
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†Pliohippus potosinus Ferrusquía-Villafranca et al. 2014
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| I. Ferrusquía-Villafranca et al. 2014 | Larger overall size (UTRL = 158 mm) than P. mirabilis, P. pernix, P. fossulatus, P. sp. cf. P. fossulatus, and P. tehonensis, but smaller than P. nobilis; P2-M3 caballine fold absent (at least at very early to early wear stages) and bear a much larger and wider postprotoconal valley (close to that of P2-4 in P. fossulatus); small, unrimmed and constricted/divided DPOF differing from that of P. mirabilis, P. pernix, P. nobilis, P. fossulatus and Pliohippus sp. cf. P. fossulatus; shallow, simple (not- compertamentalized) malar fossa differing from that of
P. mirabilis, P. nobilis, P. fossulatus, and Pliohippus sp. cf. P. fossulatus. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, MacFadden 1998, MacFadden and Cerling 1996, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Mexico (San Luis Potosí) | Pliohippus potosinus (type locality: 173691) |