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Hippidion has been considered a descendant of pliohippines, horses that migrated into the South American continent around 2.5 million years ago. However, recent analysis of the DNA of Hippidion and other New World Pleistocene horses supports the novel hypothesis that Hippidion is actually a member of the living genus Equus, with a particularly close relationship to the wild horse, Equus ferus.It stood approximately 1.4 metres (4.6 ft) high at the shoulders and resembled a donkey.Hippidion and other South American horses went extinct approximately 8,000 years ago.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippidio…).
The reconstruction here is on the basis of a skeleton photo and alteration has been made whenever necessary.
Animal is created by Artrage 4,adjusted by PS CS6, and introduced into the back and foreground adopted from a photo.
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Only the African Hipparions/Stylohipparions and the North American Nannippus survived intol the Ice Age now the Hippidions are presumed to be close to Equus. And the Hipparions were not in the Sahara so no prehistoric pictures survive. Lovely picture though some other artists cling to the probably obsolete theory of the Hippidions having a small tapirlike trunk...