Anchitherium

Anchitherium (meaning near beast) is a genus of extinct equid with a three-toed hoof.

Mandibles

Anchitherium Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N [1]
Anchitherium aurelianense, Hypohippus equinus, Merychippus sejunctus, and M. sphenodus fossils in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Subfamily:	†Anchitheriinae
Genus:	†Anchitherium von Meyer, 1844
Type species
Anchitherium aurelianense
Species[1][2][3][4]
A. alberdiae A. aurelianense A. australis A. castellanum A. clarencei A. corcolense A. cursor A. ezquerrae A. gobiense A. hippoides A. matritense A. navasotae A. parequinum A. procerum

Anchitherium was a browsing (leaf eating) horse that originated in the early Miocene of North America, being found as far south as Panama,^[5] and subsequently dispersed to Europe and Asia,^[3][4] where it gave rise to the larger bodied genus Sinohippus.^[1] It was around 60 centimetres (6.0 hands) high at the shoulder, and probably represented a side-branch of horse evolution that left no modern descendants.^[6]