Protorohippus
Appearance
Protorohippus Temporal range: Eocene (Wasatchian)
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Fossil from the Green River Formation | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Genus: | †Protorohippus Wortman, 1896 |
Type species | |
Protorohippus venticolum (Cope, 1881)
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Protorohippus (Latin: "before" (pro), + Greek: "mountain" (oros), "horse" (hippos)[1]) is an extinct species of equid that lived in the Eocene of North America.[2]
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Glossary. American Museum of Natural History". Archived from the original on 20 November 2021.
- ^ Froehlich, D. J. (2002). "Quo vadis eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134 (2): 141–256. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00005.x.