Cremohipparion is an extinct genus of equid that lived in Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene through Pliocene.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Equidae |
| Genus: | †Cremohipparion Qiu Zhanxiang, Huang Weilong & Guo Zhihui, 1987[1] |
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Its habitat or biome consisted of non-forested, grassy plains, shortgrass prairie or steppes.
Taxonomy
editCremohipparion was originally coined as a subgenus of Hipparion for a number of Eurasian species.[1] Later, Bernor and Tobien (1989) elevated Cremohipparion to full generic status in their description of small hipparionin specimens from Samos, Greece.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b QIU, Z., HUANG. W. AND GUO, Z., 1987. The Chinese hipparionine fossils (In Chinese, with an English summary). Paleontol. Sin., N.S., C.25: 1-243.
- ^ Bernor R.L.; Tobien H., 1989: Two small species of cremohipparion equidae mammalia from samos greece. Mitteilungen Der Bayerischen Staatssammlung Fuer Palaeontologie Und Historische Geologie.(29): 207-226
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