Hagerman horse

Hagerman horse
Temporal range: Pliocene–Early Pleistocene[1]
Mounted skeleton of a Hagerman horse
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
Species:
E. simplicidens
Binomial name
Equus simplicidens
Cope, 1892[2]
Synonyms
  • Plesippus shoshonensis Gidley, 1930[3]

Equus simplicidens, also known as the Hagerman horse and American zebra, is an extinct species of equine native to North America during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.[1] It is one of the oldest and most primitive members of the genus Equus. It is the state fossil of Idaho, where abundant remains of the species were discovered near the town of Hagerman in 1928.

  1. ^ a b Skinner, M.F. (1972). "Order Perissodactyla". In Skinner, M.F.; Hibbard, C.W. (eds.). Early Pleistocene Preglacial and Glacial Rocks and Faunas of North-Central Nebraska. Vol. 148. New York: American Museum of Natural History. pp. 117–125. S2CID 129067309.
  2. ^ Cope, E. D. (1892). "A Contribution to the Vertebrate Paleontology of Texas". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 30 (137): 124–125. JSTOR 983215.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gidley1930 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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