Hipparion

Hipparion Temporal range: Mid Miocene to ,23–0.781 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
H. laromae skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Genus:	Hipparion De Christol, 1832
Species
H. concudense Pirlot, 1956 H. dietrichi Wehrli, 1941 H. fissurae Crusafont and Sondaar, 1971 H. forcei Richey, 1948 H. laromae Pesquero et al., 2006 H. lufengense Sun, 2013 H. molayanense Zouhri, 1992 H. philippus Koufos & Vlachou, 2016 H. phlegrae Lazaridis and Tsoukala, 2014 H. prostylum Gervais, 1849 (type) H. sellardsi Matthew and Stirton, 1930 H. shirleyae MacFadden, 1984 H. sithonis Koufos & Vlachou, 2016 H. tehonense (Merriam, 1916)

Hipparion (Greek, "pony") is an extinct genus of horse living in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Miocene through ~23 Mya—781,000 years ago, existing for 22 million years.

Its habitat or biome would be that of non-forested, grassy plains, shortgrass prairie or steppes.

Hipparion was named by de Christol (1832) with it assigned the type European H. prostylum. It was assigned to Equidae by de Christol (1832), Thurmond and Jones (1981) and Carroll (1988); and to Hipparionini by MacFadden (1998).

Hipparion resembled the modern horse, but still had two vestigal outer toes (in addition to its hoof). These did not touch the ground. Hipparion was about 1.4 metres (13.3 hands) tall at the shoulder.

Three specimens were examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.

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