Anchitherium

Taxobox
name = "Anchitherium"
fossil_range = Early to Late MioceneSalesa et al., 2004]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Perissodactyla
familia = Equidae
subfamilia = †Anchitheriinae
genus = †"Anchitherium"
genus_authority = von Meyer, 1844
type_species = †"Anchitherium ezquerrae"
subdivision_ranks = SpeciesSánchez et al., 1998; MacFadden, 2001; Salesa et al., 2004; Ye et al., 2005]
subdivision =
* †"A. alberdiae"
* †"A. aurelianense"
* †"A. australis"
* †"A. castellanum"
* †"A. clarencei"
* †"A. corcolense"
* †"A. cursor"
* †"A. ezquerrae"
* †"A. gobiense"
* †"A. hippoides"
* †"A. matritense"
* †"A. navasotae"
* †"A. parequinum"
* †"A. procerum"

"Anchitherium" is a fossil horse with three hooves. "Anchitherium" was a browsing (leaf eating) horse that originated in the early Miocene of North America and subsequently dispersed to Europe and Asia (MacFadden, 2001), where it gave rise to the larger bodied genus "Sinohippus" (Salesa et al., 2004).

Notes

References

*MacFadden, B.J. 2001. Three-toed browsing horse "Anchitherium clarencei" from the early Miocene (Hemingfordian) Thomas Farm, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 43(3):79-109.
*Salesa, M.J., Sánchez, I.M., and Morales, J. 2004. [http://app.pan.pl/acta49/app49-189.pdf Presence of the Asian horse "Sinohippus" in the Miocene of Europe] . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 49(2):189-196.
*Sánchez, I.M., Salesa, M.J., and Morales, J. 1998. [http://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/204/205 Revisión sistemática del género "Anchitherium" Meyer, 1834 (Equidae; Perissodactyla) en España] . Estudios Geológicos, 55(1-2):1-37.
*Ye, J., W.-Y. Wu, and J. Meng. 2005. [http://www.ivpp.ac.cn/pdf/magazine311.pdf "Anchitherium" (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Halamagai Formation of Northern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang] . Vertebrata Palasiatica, 43(2):100-109 (in Chinese with English summary).