Equus neogeus

Amerhippus
	Skull of Amerhippus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Genus:	Equus
Subgenus:	Amerhippus; Hoffstetter, 1950
Type species
	Equus andium; Branco, 1883
Species
	Equus (Amerhippus) andium; Equus (Amerhippus) insulatus; Equus (Amerhippus) martinei; Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus; Equus (Amerhippus) santaeelenae;

Amerhippus is an extinct subgenus of Equus which includes several species of horses that lived in South America (Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador),^[1] living from 2.588 to 0.012 Mya. It was 1.5 Meters in height and aproximetly 400Kg in weight.

References

^ Prado, J. L.; Alberdi, M. A. T.; De Reyes, M. N. L.; Poiré, D. G.; Canalicchio, J. M. (2013). "New material of Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the late Pleistocene of Olavarría (Argentina)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 269 (2): 125. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0340.

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[1] Prado, J. L.; Alberdi, M. A. T.; De Reyes, M. N. L.; Poiré, D. G.; Canalicchio, J. M. (2013). "New material of Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the late Pleistocene of Olavarría (Argentina)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 269 (2): 125. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0340.

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