| Hypsiops Temporal range: Late Oligocene
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| Hypsiops breviceps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Merycoidodontidae |
| Genus: | †Hypsiops Schultz and Falkenbach (1950) |
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Hypsiops is an extinct genus of oreodont of the family Merycoidodontidae endemic to North America. They lived during the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene epochs, 20.4—16.0 mya, existing for approximately 4 million years.1 Fossils have been uncovered throughout the western U.S. in Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska.