Desmatippus
Extinct genus of mammals
| Desmatippus | |
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| Desmatippus nebrascensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Equidae |
| Subfamily: | †Anchitheriinae |
| Genus: | †Desmatippus Scott 1893 |
| Type species | |
| †Desmatippus crenidens | |
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Desmatippus is an extinct, three-toed, browsing member of the Equidae. It lived in what is now North America during the Miocene period (about 23 mya to 5 mya). Desmatippus was 60 cm height and 20 kg in weight.[1]
References
- ^ Bruce J. MacFadden (1994). Fossil Horses: Systematics, Paleobiology, and Evolution of the Family Equidae. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47708-6.[page needed]
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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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