Rhynchippus
In Depth Although the name means ‘snout horse’, Rhynchippus was actually a notoungulate, a group of South American mammals completely unrelated to horses. Rhynchippus was actually an early relative to the much larger Toxodon that would appear much later around the Pliocene/Pleistocene eras. The similarity between Rhynchippus and primitive horses like Mesohippus is a case … Read more