Hipparion

Description

Hipparion (Greek, “pony”) is an extinct genus of horse living in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Miocene through Pleistocene ~23 Mya—781,000 years ago, existing for 22 million years.

Its habitat or biome would be that of non-forested, grassy plains, shortgrass prairie or steppes.

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Scientific classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Perissodactyla
• Family: Equidae
• Genus: Hipparion
  De Christol, 1832

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Species

• H. concudense Pirlot, 1956
• H. dietrichi Wehrli, 1941
• H. fissurae Crusafont and Sondaar, 1971
• H. forcei Richey, 1948
• H. laromae Pesquero et al., 2006
• H. lufengense Sun, 2013
• H. molayanense Zouhri, 1992
• H. philippus Koufos & Vlachou, 2016