Hypohippidium humahuaquense Fernandez de Alvarez 1957 (horse)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Full reference: E. Fernandez de Alvarez. 1957. Hypohippidium humahuaquense nov. sp. Ameghiniana 1(1-2):85-95

Belongs to Hypohippidium according to Alvarez 1957

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FCEyN-UBA-3502, a set of limb elements (metapodials, astragali, phalanges). Its type locality is right margin of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial sandstone in Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: found only at right margin of the Quebrada de Humahuaca

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