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Hippidion (meaning
little horse) is an
extinct genus of
equine that
lived in
South America from the Late
Pliocene to the end of the Late
Pleistocene (Lujanian)...
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zebras of the
genus Equus, with two
other genera Haringtonhippus and
Hippidion becoming extinct at the
beginning of the Holocene,
around 11–12,000 years...
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gomphothere (elephant-relative) Notiomastodon, the
equines Equus neogeus and
Hippidion, and the
glyptodonts (car-sized
relatives of armadillos)
Glyptodon and...
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found at the site.
Other animals found at the site
include the
equine Hippidion, the saber-toothed cat
Smilodon and the
large camel-like
ungulate Macrauchenia...
- camel-like
ungulate Macrauchenia,
indigenous equines belonging to the
genus Hippidion, the
giant short-faced bear Arctotherium, and the
large sabertooth cat...
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evolved into the form
currently referred to as
Hippidion ~2.5
million years ago.
Hippidion is thus only
distantly related to the morphologically...
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their arrival to the region, they
would have
encountered native equines (
Hippidion), the
large ground sloth Mylodon,
saber toothed cats (Smilodon) the extinct...
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giganteus †Equus
pectinatus †Equus
crenidens Genus †Cremohipparion
Genus †
Hippidion Genus †Pliohippus
Although the
plains and
mountain zebras have been placed...
- saber-toothed cats,
ground sloths, glyptodonts, gomphotheres, the
equines Hippidion and
Equus neogeus, and all
remaining South American native ungulates....
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Pleistocene wild
horse genera (Equidae)
Equus neogeus Hippidion Hippidion devillei Hippidion prin****le
Hippidion saldiasi All
remaining Meridiungulata genera...
