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Amerhippus
Skull of Amerhippus sp.
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Amerhippus

Type species
Equus andium
Branco, 1883
Species
  • Equus (Amerhippus) andium
  • Equus (Amerhippus) insulatus
  • Equus (Amerhippus) martinei
  • Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus
  • Equus (Amerhippus) santaeelenae
Statue in Osorno
Restoration of hippidiforms with grazing Amerhippus in the background

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

  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.