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Hey @antony-avrithis I’m not all that familiar with European Neogene equids, but I think the safest bet here is to just call it Equus sp. Do you have any literature to suggest it is definitively E. stenonis?

Yeah

Neogen und jungtertiiire Entwicldung der Insel Kos (Agaiis, Griechenland) Von Rainer Willmannn and there it says in German exactly this ->.. Die bald darauf in ganz Mittel-Kos verbreiteten kontinentalen Ablagerungen bilden den ältesten Teil der Tafi-Formation. Aus ihnen stammt eine Saügertiere- Fauna mit Leptobos etruscus, Equus stenonis…

I showed my advisor (Bruce MacFadden, a horse expert) the tooth and he’s not convinced it’s Equus. I think for now let’s ID it to Equidae, and then maybe we’ll be able to find a more appropriate classification in the future.

Ok , it’s also considered as research grade with this classification eh?

Also the research I presented is a speculation from the writer

Yeah, it’s certainly an interesting specimen. The enamel patterning doesn’t scream Equus, that’s why we are thinking it might not be (possibly a hipparionine). And yes! The only other thing that we need to change to make it research grade is the coordinates from decimal minutes seconds to decimal degrees. I can help with that if you want. Just let me know!

Yeah .. please , because I have posted many things , fixed some but not all