Anchitherium was a fossil

Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...

 horse

Horse

The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...

 with a three-toe

Toe

Toes are the digits of the foot of a tetrapod. Animal species such as cats that walk on their toes are described as being digitigrade. Humans, and other animals that walk on the soles of their feet, are described as being plantigrade; unguligrade animals are those that walk on hooves at the tips of...

d hoof

Hoof

A hoof , plural hooves or hoofs , is the tip of a toe of an ungulate mammal, strengthened by a thick horny covering. The hoof consists of a hard or rubbery sole, and a hard wall formed by a thick nail rolled around the tip of the toe. The weight of the animal is normally borne by both the sole...

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Anchitherium was a browsing

Browsing (predation)

Browsing is a type of herbivory in which an herbivore feeds on leaves, soft shoots, or fruits of high growing, generally woody, plants such as shrubs. This is contrasted with grazing, usually associated with animals feeding on grass or other low vegetation...

 (leaf

Leaf

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 eating) horse that originated in the early Miocene

Miocene

The Miocene is a geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about . The Miocene was named by Sir Charles Lyell. Its name comes from the Greek words and and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern sea invertebrates than the Pliocene. The Miocene follows the Oligocene...

 of North America

North America

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 and subsequently dispersed to Europe

Europe

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 and Asia

Asia

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, where it gave rise to the larger bodied genus Sinohippus. It was around 60 centimetres (5.9 h) high at the shoulder, and probably represented a side-branch of horse evolution that left no modern descendants.

Species

A number of species have been included in the genus since it was first named.

• 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