Anchitherium

Anchitherium Temporal range: Early to Late Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Subfamily:	†Anchitheriinae
Genus:	†Anchitherium von Meyer, 1844
Type species
†Anchitherium ezquerrae
Species
†A. alberdiae †A. aurelianense †A. australis †A. castellanum †A. clarencei †A. corcolense †A. cursor †A. ezquerrae †A. gobiense †A. hippoides †A. matritense †A. navasotae †A. parequinum †A. procerum

Anchitherium is a fossil horse with three hooves. Anchitherium was a browsing (leaf eating) horse that originated in the early Miocene of North America and subsequently dispersed to Europe and Asia (MacFadden, 2001), where it gave rise to the larger bodied genus Sinohippus (Salesa et al., 2004).

References

• MacFadden, B.J. 2001. Three-toed browsing horse Anchitherium clarencei from the early Miocene (Hemingfordian) Thomas Farm, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 43(3):79-109.
• Salesa, M.J., Sánchez, I.M., and Morales, J. 2004. Presence of the Asian horse Sinohippus in the Miocene of Europe. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 49(2):189-196.
• Sánchez, I.M., Salesa, M.J., and Morales, J. 1998. Revisión sistemática del género Anchitherium Meyer, 1834 (Equidae; Perissodactyla) en España. Estudios Geológicos, 55(1-2):1-37.
• Ye, J., W.-Y. Wu, and J. Meng. 2005. Anchitherium (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Halamagai Formation of Northern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 43(2):100-109 (in Chinese with English summary).