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Katy Estes-Smargiassi and Eric Scott are now friends 7 years, 6 months ago
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Michelle Barboza and Eric Scott are now friends 7 years, 6 months ago
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Eric Scott replied to the topic Extinct Equus species in the forum The Fossil Horses Forum 8 years, 1 month ago
8 years, 1 month ago8 years, 1 month agoHi, Christina and Bruce –
Thanks for your e-mails! The question Christina poses is actually a bit thorny. The short answer is that some North American Pleistocene fossils that have been assigned morphologically to Equus lambei are genetically indistinguishable from E. ferus (that’s the name for the wild horse; E. caballus applies to domestic &…[Read more]
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Eric Scott replied to the topic Tooth found in Texas Well in the forum What Is It? 8 years, 1 month ago
8 years, 1 month ago8 years, 1 month agoHi, Veronica and Bruce–
Thanks for the e-mail! The tooth looks to be a lower right cheek tooth. It’s definitely not Equus, and to my eye doesn’t look right for Dinohippus, Pliohippus, or even Astrohippus. That stylid on the anterior end looks interesting. If you take a look at the appended pdf, specifically Figure 4, you’ll see lower cheek teeth…[Read more]
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Eric Scott replied to the topic Tooth found in Texas Well in the forum What Is It? 8 years, 1 month ago
8 years, 1 month ago8 years, 1 month agoHi, Veronica and Bruce–
Thanks for the e-mail! The tooth looks to be a lower right cheek tooth. It’s definitely not Equus, and to my eye doesn’t look right for Dinohippus, Pliohippus, or even Astrohippus. That stylid on the anterior end looks interesting. If you take a look at the appended pdf, specifically Figure 4, you’ll see lower cheek teeth…[Read more]
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Eric Scott started the topic Small Equus from Gypsum Cave, Mojave Desert in the forum The Fossil Horses Forum 8 years, 5 months ago
8 years, 5 months ago8 years, 5 months agoHere is a skull of small, “stilt-legged” Equus from Gypsum Cave outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. The skull was mentioned in the original 1933 paper on the cave by Mark Harrington, but was not in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (where the remainder of the Gypsum Cave fossils are reposited) when those cabinets were…[Read more]
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