Eohippus (Hyracotherium)
140140Eohippus (†Eohippus (Marsh, 1876))
Hyracotherium angustidens
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Time period: Early Eocene in North America (55.8–47.8 Ma).
Size: 60 cm in length, 30 cm in height, 12 kg of weight
Typical representative: Hyracotherium leporinum Owen, 1841
Eohippus (Hyracotherium) was a primative mammal, one of the first Horses, dating back to the early Eocene period. Measuring roughly one meter long, it was a herbivore which would have lived in small herds in the forests of ancient North America.
Eohippus (†Eohippus (Marsh, 1876))
Hyracotherium angustidens
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Time period: Early Eocene in North America (55.8–47.8 Ma).
Size: 60 cm in length, 30 cm in height, 12 kg of weight
Typical representative: Hyracotherium leporinum Owen, 1841
Eohippus (Hyracotherium) was a primative mammal, one of the first Horses, dating back to the early Eocene period. Measuring roughly one meter long, it was a herbivore which would have lived in small herds in the forests of ancient North America.