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Hyracotherium

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Hyracotherium

Extinct mammal belonging to the order Perissodactyla and considered to be an ancestor of the horse. It occurs in Eocene strata in Europe and was a small animal about 1 m/3.3 ft in length, with complete dentition, four digits on the forelimbs, and three on the hind-limbs, and orbits not enclosed by bone.



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Called Hyracotherium sandrae, the newly identified species is the oldest known horse in North America, reports Philip D.
Other animals represented at the Wyoming site, such as the "dawn horse" Hyracotherium, are smaller and more primitive than the same animals associated with European Cantius specimens, he adds.
 
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