Hipparion

Hipparion; Temporal range: Early Miocene to Late Pleistocene, 23–0.781 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	H. laromae skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Subfamily:	Equinae
Tribe:	†Hipparionini
Genus:	†Hipparion; De Christol, 1832
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Hemihipparion;

Hipparion (Greek, "pony") is an extinct genus of horse that lived in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. This was during the Early Miocene to the Late Pleistocene ~23 million years to 780,000 years ago.^[1] They lived for a total of 22 million years. Female Hipparions were more different from male Hipparions. This creature was preyed upon by famous predators such as Smilodon and Titanis.

Media

Hipparion has appeared only in Wild New World and the novel The People that Time Forgot, during where in the novel, it was named Ace and called as a Merychippus, an ancestral horse. It appeared in the documentary stop motion series My Ancient World, where it was depicted as a white horse and the main prey item for the large terror bird Kelenken.

References

1 2 Palmer, D., ed. (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 257. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.

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[EoDP-1] 1 2 Palmer, D., ed. (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 257. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.

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