Hagerman horse

Hagerman horse
Temporal range: Pliocene-Late Pleistocene
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
Subgenus: Dolichohippus
Species:
E. simplicidens
Binomial name
Equus simplicidens
Cope, 1892[1]
Synonyms
  • Plesippus shoshonensis Gidley, 1930[2]

Equus simplicidens, sometimes known as the Hagerman horse or the American Zebra is an extinct species of equine native to North America during the Pliocene and Early-Late Pleistocene. It is one of the oldest and most primitive members of the genus Equus. Abundant remains of it were discovered in 1928 in Hagerman, Idaho. It is the state fossil of Idaho.[3]

  1. ^ Cope, E. D. (1892). "A Contribution to the Vertebrate Paleontology of Texas". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 30 (137): 124–125. JSTOR 983215.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gidley1930 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Idaho: Equus simplicidens (state fossil). StateFossils.com [dead link]

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