Hippotherium

Hippotherium Temporal range: Middle to Late Miocene
Skeleton of Hippotherium primigenium, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Subfamily:	Equinae
Tribe:	†Hipparionini
Genus:	†Hippotherium Kaup, 1832
Species
H. primigenius (von Meyer, 1829) (type species) H. weihoense (Liu et al. 1978) H. koenigswaldi (Sondaar, 1961) H. catalaunicum (Perlot, 1956)

Hippotherium is an extinct genus of horse that lived in during the Miocene through Pliocene ~13.65—3.3 Mya, existing for 10.35 million years.

Species

Jaw and teeth

Metapodial

Skull

Skeleton of H. primigenius

The type species, H. primigenius, is known from Miocene deposits in Europe and the Middle East, while the species H. koenigswaldi and H. catalaunicum have been found in Miocene deposits in Spain. The Asian hipparionin "Hipparion" weihoense from early Late Miocene deposits in northern China has also been referred to the genus.

Fossil distribution

• Doue-la-Fontaine France estimated age: ~13.65—7.25 Mya.
• Lower Bakhtiari Formation, northern Iraq, estimated age: ~11.6—9.0 Mya.
• Kurtchuk-Tchekmedje, Turkey estimated age: ~11.61—5.33 Mya.