Megahippus
Sign in to saveMegahippus is an extinct genus of large Anchitheriine horses found throughout the southern portion of the United States during the middle Miocene. The animal represents one of the latest low-crowned horses, overlapping in time with more derived high-crowned horses.
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It sits within the topics Anchitheriinae, Fossil taxa described in 1938 and Miocene horses.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
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- Megahippus mckennai.jpg
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- taxon name
- Megahippus
- Commons category
- Megahippus
- start time
- 16300000-0
- end time
- 10300000-0
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Dentition
- Crania
- Postcrania
- Paleobiology
- References
Megahippus is an extinct genus of large Anchitheriine horses found throughout the southern portion of the United States during the middle Miocene. The animal represents one of the latest low-crowned horses, overlapping in time with more derived high-crowned horses.
== Description ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Megahippus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.