Desmatippus
Appearance
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Desmatippus | |
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Desmatippus tyleri composite skeleton, National Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Subfamily: | †Anchitheriinae |
Genus: | †Desmatippus Scott 1893 |
Type species | |
†Desmatippus crenidens | |
Species | |
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Desmatippus is an extinct, three-toed, browsing member of the Equidae. It lived in what is now North America during the Miocene period (about 23 mya to 5 mya). Desmatippus was 60 cm in height and 20 kg in weight.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Bruce J. MacFadden (1994). Fossil Horses: Systematics, Paleobiology, and Evolution of the Family Equidae. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47708-6.[page needed]