Equus giganteus
| Equus giganteus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Equidae |
| Genus: | Equus |
| Species: | †E. giganteus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Equus giganteus Gidley, 1901
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Thegiant horse(Equus giganteus) is an extinct species of horse which lived in North America.
It was classified as a species based on the finding of a single tooth larger than the teeth of even the largest moderndraft horses.[1][2]Based on the tooth, the weight was estimated at 1,200–1,500 kg (2,600–3,300 lb) and the height at 2.25 m (7 ft 5 in) tall at the shoulder.[3]Because it is based on fragmentary remains, recent authors have considered the species to be an invalidnomen dubium.[4]
References
[edit]- ^Gidley, James Williams (1901)."Tooth characters and revision of the North American species of the genus Equus".Bulletin of the AMNH.hdl:2246/1544.
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- ^Eisenmann, Vera (2003)."Gigantic horses"(PDF).In Petculescu, Alexandru; Ştiucă, Emanoil (eds.).Advances in vertebrate paleontology 'Hen to Panta'.'Emil Racoviţă' Institute of Speology. pp. 31–40.ISBN978-973-0-02910-9.OCLC895100716.S2CID171086133.
- ^Cirilli, Omar; Machado, Helena; Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin; Barrón-Ortiz, Christina I.; Davis, Edward; Jass, Christopher N.; Jukar, Advait M.; Landry, Zoe; Marín-Leyva, Alejandro H.; Pandolfi, Luca; Pushkina, Diana; Rook, Lorenzo; Saarinen, Juha; Scott, Eric; Semprebon, Gina (2022-08-24)."Evolution of the Family Equidae, Subfamily Equinae, in North, Central and South America, Eurasia and Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene (supplemental material)".Biology.11(9): 1258.doi:10.3390/biology11091258.ISSN2079-7737.PMC9495906.PMID36138737.
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