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Hippotherium

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Morphology
Species
References

{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil_range|15|11}}Middle to Late Miocene
| image = Hipparion.JPG
| image_caption = Skeleton of Hippotherium primigenium, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Hippotherium
| authority = Kaup, 1832
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =

H. primigenius (von Meyer, 1829) (type species)
H. weihoense Liu et al. 1978
H. koenigswaldi (Sondaar, 1961)
H. catalaunicum (Perlot, 1956)

}}

Hippotherium is an extinct genus of horse that lived in during the Miocene through Pliocene ~13.65—3.3 Mya, existing for {{Mya|13.65-3.3|million years}}.

Morphology

One specimen was estimated to have weighed {{Convert|61.5|kg|lb|abbr=on|sigfig=2}} in life.^[1]

Species

The type species, H. primigenius, is known from Miocene deposits in Europe and the Middle East, while the species H. koenigswaldi and H. catalaunicum have been found in found in Miocene deposits in Spain. The Asian hipparionin "Hipparion" weihoense from early Late Miocene deposits in northern China was referred to the genus by Bernor et al. (2018).^[2]

Fossil distribution

Doue-la-Fontaine France estimated age: ~13.65—7.25 Mya.
Lower Bakhtiari Formation, northern Iraq, estimated age: ~11.6—9.0 Mya.
Kurtchuk-Tchekmedje, Turkey estimated age: ~11.61—5.33 Mya.

References

1. ^M. Mendoza, C. M. Janis, and P. Palmqvist. 2006. Estimating the body mass of extinct ungulates: a study on the use of multiple regression. Journal of Zoology 270(1):90-101
2. ^Raymond L. Bernor; Shiqi Wang; Yan Liu; Yu Chen; Boyang Sun (2018). "Shanxihippus dermatorhinus comb. nov. with comparisons to old world hipparions with specialized nasal apparati". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 124 (2): 361–386. doi:10.13130/2039-4942/10202.

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