Miohippus - Facts and Figures

Miohippus - Facts and Figures Name: Miohippus (Greek for Miocene horse); articulated MY-goodness HIP-us Natural surroundings: Fields of North America Recorded Epoch: Late Eocene-Early Oligocene (35-25 million years back) Size and Weight: Around four feet in length and 50-75 pounds Diet: Plants Recognizing Characteristics: Little size; generally long skull; three-toed feet  About Miohippus Miohippus was one of the best ancient ponies of the Tertiary time frame; this three-toed class (which was firmly identified with the correspondingly named Mesohippus) was spoken to by around twelve unique species, every one of them indigenous to North America from around 35 to 25 million years back. Miohippus was somewhat bigger than Mesohippus (around 100 pounds for a full-developed grown-up, contrasted with 50 or 75 pounds); be that as it may, notwithstanding its name, it lived not in the Miocene yet the previous Eocene and Oligocene ages, a misstep for which you can thank the well known American scientist Othniel C. Swamp. Like its comparably named family members, Miohippus lay on the direct transformative line that prompted the cutting edge horse, variety Equus. To some degree confusingly, despite the fact that Miohippus is known by over twelve named species, running from M. acutidens to M. quartus, the family itself comprised of two fundamental sorts, one adjusted for life on prairies and the other most appropriate to backwoods and forests. It was the prairie assortment that prompted Equus; the forest rendition, with its prolonged second and fourth toes, produced little relatives that went wiped out in Eurasia at the cusp of the Pliocene age, around 5,000,000 years prior.