Named By: | de Christol in 1832 |
Time Period: | Early Miocene to Pleistocene,[1] 23-0.781 Ma |
Location: | Across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America |
Size: | Around 1.4 meters high at the shoulder |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Hundreds of specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Perissodactyla | Equidae | |
Also known as: | | Hemihipparion | Stylohipparion | |
Hipparion (Greek, "pony") is an extinct genus of horse that lived in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Miocene through Pleistocene ~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.