Cremohipparion

Cremohipparion is an extinct genus of horse living in Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene through Pliocene.

Cremohipparion
Temporal range: Mid Miocene to Pliocene, 23โ€“3.6 Ma
C. mediterraneum skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: โ€ Cremohipparion
Qiu Zhanxiang, Huang Weilong & Guo Zhihui, 1987[1]
Species
  • Cremohipparion antelopinum
  • Cremohipparion forstenae
  • Cremohipparion matthewi
  • Cremohipparion mediterraneum

Its habitat or biome consisted of non-forested, grassy plains, shortgrass prairie or steppes.

Taxonomy

Cremohipparion was originally coined as a subgenus of Hipparion for a number of Eurasian species.[1] Later, Bernor and Tobien (1989) elevated Cremohipparion to full generic status in their description of small hipparionin specimens from Samos, Greece.[2]

References
  1. QIU, Z., HUANG. W. AND GUO, Z., 1987. The Chinese hipparionine fossils (In Chinese, with an English summary). Paleontol. Sin., N.S., C.25: 1-243.
  2. Bernor R.L.; Tobien H., 1989: Two small species of cremohipparion equidae mammalia from samos greece. Mitteilungen Der Bayerischen Staatssammlung Fuer Palaeontologie Und Historische Geologie.(29): 207-226
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