Equus scotti Temporal range:
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A mounted skeleton of Equus scotti at the AMNH, constructed out of two skeletons | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Equidae |
Genus: | Equus |
Species: | †E. scotti
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Binomial name | |
†Equus scotti Gidley, 1900
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Synonyms | |
†Equus bautistensis |
Equus scotti (translated from Latin as Scott's horse,[1] named after vertebrate paleontologist William Berryman Scott) is an extinct species of horse native to Pleistocene North America.[2]