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Merychippus

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Merychippus 

a genus of extinct animals of the Equidae (horse) family. Fossils are known from deposits of the Middle and Upper Miocene in North America. They were descendants of Miohippus, were the size of an ass, and had three toes. Merychippus lived in open expanses.
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Xiaoming Wang, associate curator for the museum's vertebrate paleontology department, went out to investigate after seeing the photos, which show the upper nose plus a little bit of the teeth root of what may be a 3 1/2-foot-tall horse called merychippus that lived at the same time as mastodons and saber-toothed cats.
HIKE'S PREHISTORIC PAYOFF SKULL FOSSIL THOUGHT TO BE 3-TOED HORSE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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