Hyracotherium ("Hyrax-like beast") (also known as Eohippus) was
a dog-sized perissodactyl ungulate that lived in the Northern
Hemisphere, with species ranging throughout Asia, Europe, and North
America during the Early to Mid Eocene, about 60 to 45 million
years ago. It was once considered to be the earliest known member
of the horse family before being reclassified as a palaeothere, of
a perissodactyl family related to both horses and brontotheres.