Plesippus

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Extinct genus of mammals

title: "Plesippus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["pliocene-horses", "prehistoric-mammals-of-north-america", "pliocene-perissodactyla", "pliocene-first-appearances", "pleistocene-extinctions", "pleistocene-horses", "equus-(genus)", "extinct-animals-of-the-united-states"] description: "Extinct genus of mammals" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesippus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Extinct genus of mammals ::

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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.

Species

Two species are recognized by Barron et al. (2019), P. simplicidens and P. idahoensis.

References

The Hagerman Horse Quarry
Hagerman Fossil Beds' Critter Corner - Hagerman Horse - Equus simplicidens, Dr. Greg McDonald

References

(2019). "What is Equus? Reconciling Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Analyses". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

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