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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)...
- 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...
- separate genus was subsequently questioned. A separate genus of horse, Hippidion existed in South America. The possible causes of the extinction of horses...
- and evolved into the form currently referred to as Hippidion ~2.5 million years ago. Hippidion is thus only distantly related to the morphologically...
- their arrival to the region, they would have encountered native equines (Hippidion), the large ground sloth Mylodon, saber toothed cats (Smilodon) the extinct...
- gomphothere (elephant-relative) Notiomastodon, the equines Equus neogeus and Hippidion, and the glyptodonts (car-sized relatives of armadillos) Glyptodon and...
- found at the site. Other animals found at the site include the equine Hippidion, the saber-toothed cat Smilodon and the litoptern Macrauchenia Diverse...
- †Equus major †Equus giganteus †Equus pectinatus †Equus crenidens GenusHippidion Genus †Onohippidium Genus †Pliohippus Although the plains and mountain...
- Haringtonhippus. The genus is phylogenetically closer to Equus than to Hippidion. It is estimated to have diverged from modern Equus around 4.1–5.7 million...
- saber-toothed cats, ground sloths, glyptodonts, gomphotheres, the equines Hippidion and Equus neogeus, and all remaining South American native ungulates....