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Equus simplicidens, also known as the Hagerman horse 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.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is a Pliocene-age site near Hagerman, Idaho.The 4,351-acre (17.61 km 2) Monument is internationally significant because it protects one of the richest known fossil deposits from the Blancan North American Land Mammal Age. [3]
Equus (/ ˈ ɛ k w ə s, ˈ iː k w ə s /) [3] is a genus of mammals in the family Equidae, which includes horses, asses, and zebras. Within the Equidae, Equus is the only recognized extant genus, comprising seven living species.
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus . The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus , into the large, single-toed animal of today.
Gallic horse (Equus caballus gallicus) is a prehistoric subspecies of Equus caballus (the horse) that lived in the Upper Paleolithic.It first appeared in the Aurignacian period because of climatic changes and roamed the territory of present-day France during the Gravettian and up to the end of the Solutrean.
Przewalski's horse is thought to be similar in appearance to ancestors of today's domestic horses.. Primitive markings are a group of hair coat markings and qualities seen in several equine species, including horses, donkeys, and asses.
It is also clear that these hobelars are increasingly Englishmen, rather than Irish. Of the 845 hobelars at the siege of Berwick in 1319, 500 were from Cumberland and Westmorland, 36 from Barnard Castle, 24 from Norham and 45 from Tynedale. [6] 376 English, 10 Welsh and 139 Irish hobelars were mustered at Newcastle in 1322. [7]
Equus ferus caballus The Limousin horse ( French : cheval limousin , Occitan : caval lemosin ) is an extinct French and Occitan horse breed that was bred from the 12th century to the 20th century as a saddle horse , as well as to pull horse carriages , in the Limousin region of France , formerly part of Aquitaine and Occitania .