Named By: | Richard Owen in 1869 |
Time Period: | Pliocene-Late Pleistocene (Montehermosan-Lujanian & Blancan)~5.332-0.009 Ma |
Location: | Across South America |
Size: | 1.4 meters high at the shoulders |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Multiple specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Perissodactyla | Equidae | |
Hippidion (meaning little horse) is an extinct genus of horse that lived in South America during the Pleistocene epoch, between two million and 10,000 years ago.