Cremohipparion
Extinct genus of mammals
Cremohipparion Temporal range: Mid Miocene to Pliocene, 23–3.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Cremohipparion Qiu Zhanxiang, Huang Weilong & Guo Zhihui, 1987[1] |
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Cremohipparion is an extinct genus of horse living in Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene through Pliocene.
Its habitat or biome consisted of non-forested, grassy plains, shortgrass prairie or steppes.
Taxonomy
Cremohipparion was originally coined as a subgenus of Hipparion for a number of Eurasian species.[1] Later, Bernor and Tobien (1989) elevated Cremohipparion to full generic status in their description of small hipparionin specimens from Samos, Greece.[2]
References
- ^ a b QIU, Z., HUANG. W. AND GUO, Z., 1987. The Chinese hipparionine fossils (In Chinese, with an English summary). Paleontol. Sin., N.S., C.25: 1-243.
- ^ Bernor R.L.; Tobien H., 1989: Two small species of cremohipparion equidae mammalia from samos greece. Mitteilungen Der Bayerischen Staatssammlung Fuer Palaeontologie Und Historische Geologie.(29): 207-226
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Extinct genera of Equidae (Horse family), arranged by subfamily
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Chordata
- Class Mammalia
- Infraclass Eutheria
- Superorder Laurasiatheria
- Order Perissodactyla
- Eohippus
- Epihippus
- Erihippus
- Ghazijhippus
- Eurohippus
- Haplohippus
- Heptaconodon
- Pliolophus
- Propalaeotherium
- Protorohippus
- Orohippus
- Sifrhippus
- Xenicohippus
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