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Hippidion saldiasi Roth, 1899

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct if valid

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Argentina & Chile

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

M. T. Alberdi, A. N. Menegaz, J. L. Prado, Formas terminales de Hippidion (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) de los yacimientos del Pleistoceno Tardío-Holoceno de la Patagonia (Argentina y Chile). Estud. Geol. 43, 107–115 (1987).

Alberdi, María T., Miotti, Laura and Prado, José L. (2001). Hippidion saldiasi Roth, 1899 (Equidae, Perissodactyla) at the Piedra Museo Site (Santa Cruz, Argentina): its implication for the regional economy and environmental reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Science 28: 411-419.

Cirilli, Omar, Machado, H., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Barrón-Ortiz, C. I., Davis, E., Jass, C. N., Jukar, A. M., Landry, Z., Marín-Leyva, A. H., Pandolfi, L., Pushkina, D., Rook, L., Saarinen, J., Scott, E., Semprebon, G., Strani, F., Villavicencio, N. A., Kaya, F. and Bernor, R. L. (2022). Evolution of the Family Equidae, Subfamily Equinae, in North, Central and South America, Eurasia and Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene. Biology 11(9): 1258. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11091258

Hogan, C. Michael. (2008). ‘'Pali Aike'‘, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham.

Labarca, Rafael et al. (2021). A Partially Complete Skeleton of Hippidion saldiasi Roth, 1899 (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of the High Andes in Northern Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2020.1862132 [Abstract]

P. López-Mendoza, O. Rojas, P. Mansilla, L. Olivares, and I. Martínez. (2010). Mamíferos extintos del Pleistoceno de la Cuenca de Calama (Segunda Región, Chile). Viejas colecciones y nuevos hallazgos. Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 17: 11-25.

L. Orlando, J. L. Metcalf, M. T. Alberdi, M. Telles-Antunes, D. Bonjean, M. Otte, F. Martin, V. Eisenmann, M. Mashkour, F. Morello, J. L. Prado, R. Salas-Gismondi, B. J. Shockey, P. J. Wrinn, S. K. Vasil’ev, N. D. Ovodov, M. I. Cherry, B. Hopwood, D. Male, J. J. Austin, C. Hänni, A. Cooper. (2009). Revising the recent evolutionary history of equids using ancient DNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106: 21754-21759.

Prates, Luciano and Perez, S. Ivan. (2021). Late Pleistocene South American megafaunal extinctions associated with rise of Fishtail points and human population. Nature Communications 12: 2175.

Villavicencio, Natalia A., Corcoran, Derek and Marquet, Pablo A. (2019). Assessing the Causes Behind the Late Quaternary Extinction of Horses in South America Using Species Distribution Models. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7: 226.

 

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