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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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Equidae |
| Subfamily: | Equinae |
| Tribe: | †Hipparionini |
| Genus: | †Hipparion De Christol, 1832 |
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Media
changeHipparion 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.
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Palmer, D., ed. (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 257. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.
