Notohippidae

Notohippidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals from South America. Notohippids are known from the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.[1]

Notohippidae
Temporal range: Early Eocene–Late Oligocene
Rhynchippus equinus with Pyrotherium romeroi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Notoungulata
Suborder:
†Toxodonta
Family:
†Notohippidae

Ameghino, 1894
Subfamilies and Genera

†Notohippinae

  • †Argyrohippus
  • †Colpodon
  • †Nesohippus
  • †Notohippus
  • †Perhippidion
  • †Purperia
  • †Stilhippus

†Rhynchippinae

  • †Eomorphippus
  • †Eurygenium
  • †Morphippus
  • †Pampahippus
  • †Plexotemnus
  • †Puelia
  • †Rhynchippus

incertae sedis

  • †Acoelohyrax
  • †Edvardocopeia
  • †Trimerostephanos

References
  1. McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8


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