Eurygnathohippus

Eurygnathohippus is an extinct genus of hipparionine horse.[2][1] The majority of known fossils of members of this genus were discovered in Africa, where members of this genus lived during the late Miocene to Pleistocene interval.[1][3] Fossils of Eurygnathohippus were also reported from the late Pliocene sediments of the Potwar Plateau in Pakistan and the Siwalik Hills in northwest India.[4]

Eurygnathohippus
Temporal range: Late Miocene-Pleistocene, 7.246–0.781 Ma
H. afarense skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Subfamily: Equinae
Tribe: †Hipparionini
Genus: †Eurygnathohippus
Haughton, 1932
Species
  • E. afarense
  • E. albertense
  • E. baardi
  • E. cornelianus
  • E. hasumense
  • E. libycum
  • E. namaquense
  • E. turkanense
  • E. woldegabrieli[1]
H. afarense mandible

References
  1. Bernor, Raymond L.; Gilbert, Henry; Semprebon, Gina M.; Simpson, Scott; Semaw, Sileshi (2013). "Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli, sp. nov. (Perissodactyla, Mammalia), from the middle Pliocene of Aramis, Ethiopia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (6): 1472–1485. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.829741. ISSN 0272-4634.
  2. Armour-Chelu, M.; Bernor, R. L. (2011). "Equidae". Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. p. 295. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9962-4_12. ISBN 978-90-481-9961-7.
  3. "Fossilworks: Eurygnathohippus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  4. Advait Mahesh Jukar; Boyang Sun; Avinash C. Nanda; Raymond L. Bernor (2019). "The first occurrence of Eurygnathohippus Van Hoepen, 1930 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) outside Africa and its biogeographic significance". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 58 (2): 171–179. doi:10.4435/BSPI.2019.13.


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