Cormohipparion

Cormohipparion
Temporal range: Mid Miocene-Early Pliocene
(Hemphillian-Blancan)
~15.97–3.6 Ma
C. occidentale skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Subfamily: Equinae
Tribe: †Hipparionini
Genus: †Cormohipparion
Skinner & MacFadden, 1977
Type species
†Hipparion occidentale
Subgenera and species

†Cormohipparion

  • †C. (C.) fricki Woodburne, 2007
  • †C. (C.) goorisi MacFadden & Skinner, 1981
  • †C. (C.) johnsoni Woodburne, 2007
  • †C. (C.) matthewi Woodburne, 2007
  • †C. (C.) merriami Woodburne, 2007
  • †C. (C.) occidentale (Leidy, 1856) (type)
  • †C. (C.) quinni Woodburne, 1996
  • †C. (C.) skinneri Woodburne, 2007

†Notiocradohipparion

  • †C. (N.) plicatile (Leidy, 1887)
  • †C. (N.) ingenuum (Leidy, 1885)
  • †C. (N.) emsliei Hulbert, 1988

Cormohipparion is an extinct genus of horse belonging to the tribe Hipparionini that lived in North America during the late Miocene to Pliocene (Hemphillian to Blancan in the NALMA classification).[1] They grew up to 3 feet (0.91 meters) long.[2][3]

  1. ^ MacFadden, Bruce J.; Skinner, Morris F. (1982). "Hipparion Horses and Modern Phylogenetic Interpretation: Comments on Forsten's View of Cormohipparion". Journal of Paleontology. 56 (6): 1336–1342. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1304670.
  2. ^ "Region 4: The Great Plains". geology.teacherfriendlyguide.org. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  3. ^ Czaplewski, Nicholas J.; Thurmond, J. Peter; Wyckoff, Don G. (Fall 2001). "Wild Horse Creek #1: A Late Miocene (Clarendonian-Hemphillian) Vertebrate Fossil Assemblage in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma" (PDF). Oklahoma Geology. 61 (3): 60–67.