Sifrhippus

Sifrhippus would have looked quite different to modern horses, being more slender and much smaller, with a relatively small head and longer hindlimbs. Its body was built to leap around the forest undergrowth instead of galloping on open grasslands like later equids. Individuals likely weighed between ; the size variance, according to one theory, depended on the warmth of the climate. Image:Sifrhippus sp..JPG|Life restoration in the Swedish Museum of Natural History Image:Sifrhippus grangeri Wikipedia Juandertal.jpg|Life reconstruction based on living small-bodied, forest-dwelling ungulates. == Taxonomy ==

Sifrhippus sandrae is referred to in earlier literature as Hyracotherium sandrae, but Froehlich, arguing that the traditional genus Hyracotherium was not monophyletic, reassigned many of its species to other genera. Froehlich gave H. sandrae the new generic name Sifrhippus, derived from the Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr), "zero", and Greek ἵππος (híppos), "horse". It has been argued that the differences in the fossils are more likely caused by individual variation in animals. == References ==