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Plesippus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Tribe: | Equini |
Genus: | †
Plesippus Matthew, 1924 |
Plesippus is a genus of extinct horse from the Pleistocene of North America. Although commonly seen as a subgenus of Equus recent cladistic analysis considers it a distinct genus.
Two species are recognized by Barron et al. (2019), P. simplicidens and P. idahoensis. [1]