Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Family Equidae | Phylum Chordata Order Perissodactyla Rank Genus | |
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Subgenus Amerhippus
Hoffstetter, 1950 Similar Hippidion, Hippidion principale, Onohippidium, Equus conversidens, Palaeolama | ||
Amerhippus is an extinct subgenus of Equus which includes several species of horses that lived in South America (Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador), living from 2.588 to 0.012 Mya. It measured roughly 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height and approximately 400 kilograms (880 lb) in weight.
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