Hipparion
Hipparion (Greek, "pony") is an extinct genus of horse that lived in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. This was during the Early Miocene to the Late Pleistocene ~23 million years to 780,000 years ago.[1] They lived for a total of 22 million years. Female Hipparions were more different from male Hipparions. This creature was preyed upon by famous predators such as Smilodon and Titanis.
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Media
Hipparion has appeared only in Wild New World and the novel The People that Time Forgot, during where in the novel, it was named Ace and called as a Merychippus, an ancestral horse. It appeared in the documentary stop motion series My Ancient World, where it was depicted as a white horse and the main prey item for the large terror bird Kelenken.
Hipparion Media
Life reconstruction of H. forcei
Hipparion - extinct horse
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Mauricio Antón's illustration of Hipparion cornelianum that resembles a modern-day zebra
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals (1999). London: Marshall Editions. p. 257. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.