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Protohippus
Protohippus Pro`to*hip"pus, n. [NL., from Gr. ? first + ? horse.] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.

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- Protohippus is an extinct three-toed genus of horse. It was roughly the size of a modern donkey. Fossil evidence suggests that it lived during the Late...
- them. Evolution of the horse- more broad info on the topic Mesohippus Protohippus Wikispecies has information related to eohippus. Wikimedia Commons has...
- †Heteropliohippus Genus †Parapliohippus Subtribe Protohippina Genus †Calippus Genus †Protohippus Subtribe Equina Genus †Astrohippus Genus †Dinohippus Genus Equus (22...
- obliquidens M. proteulophus M. westoni Paleontology portal Eohippus Protohippus Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mesohippus. Wikispecies has information...
- Numerous authors ****igned the type species – Merychippus insignis – to Protohippus, but this is ignored. It was ****igned to the Equidae by Leidy (1856)...
- be descended from the numerous varieties of Merychippus: Hipparion, Protohippus and Pliohippus. The most different from Merychippus was Hipparion, mainly...
- 11,000 years ago Genus: † Onohippidium Genus: † Pliohippus Genus: † Protohippus "Paleobiology Database: Equini basic info". Archived from the original...
- digits on a limb, as in the rhinoceros and ancestors of the horse such as Protohippus and Hipparion. These all belong to the Perissodactyla. Some birds also...
- Haringtonhippus Heteropliohippus Parapliohippus Subtribe Protohippina: Calippus Protohippus Subtribe Equina: Astrohippus Dinohippus Equus Hippidion Pliohippus...
- in the Ashfall deposits include: five horse genera: Cormohipparion, Protohippus, Pseudhipparion, Neohipparion and Pliohippus three camelid genera: Procamelus...