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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