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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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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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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...
- †Dinohippus
Genus Equus (22 species, 7 extant)
Genus †Cremohipparion
Genus †
Hippidion Genus †Pliohippus "PBDB".
Paleobiology Database.
Retrieved 2021-07-18...
- 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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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...
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gomphothere (elephant-relative) Notiomastodon, the
equines Equus neogeus and
Hippidion, and the
glyptodonts (car-sized
relatives of armadillos)
Glyptodon and...
- saber-toothed cats,
ground sloths, glyptodonts, gomphotheres, the
equines Hippidion and
Equus neogeus, and all
remaining South American native ungulates....
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their arrival in the region, they
would have
encountered native equines (
Hippidion), the
large ground sloth Mylodon,
saber toothed cats (Smilodon) the extinct...
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separate genus was
subsequently questioned. A
separate genus of horse,
Hippidion existed in
South America. The
possible causes of the
extinction of horses...
