Temporal range: Ypresian (Wasatchian), 55.8–50.3 Ma
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Skeleton at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Perissodactyla
Family:
Equidae
Genus:
†Sifrhippus Froehlich, 2002
Species
S. sandrae (Gingerich, 1989)
Synonyms
Hyracotherium sandrae
Sifrhippus is an extinct genus of equid containing the species S. sandrae. Sifrhippus is the oldest known equid, living during the early Eocene.[1] Its fossils were discovered in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming.[2][3]
^"†Sifrhippus Froehlich 2002 (horse)". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^Gingerich, P.D. (1989). "New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage". University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology. 28: 1–97. hdl:2027.42/48628.
^Froehlich, D.J. (2002). "Quo vadis eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134 (2): 141–256. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00005.x.
Sifrhippus is an extinct genus of equid containing the species S. sandrae. Sifrhippus is the oldest known equid, living during the early Eocene. Its fossils...
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have been placed in several other genera, such as Arenahippus, Minippus, Sifrhippus, Xenicohippus, Pliolophus, Protorohippus and the resurrected Eohippus...
oldest finds from an extant group originate among other sources, from Sifrhippus, an ancestor of the horses from the Willswood lineup in northwestern Wyoming...
other, basal forms of the order Perissodactyla, such as Hyracotherium or Sifrhippus, some of which were well-studied members of the early equids, what shows...
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