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angustidens Cope, 1875, and the
resulting binomial is thus
Eohippus angustidens.
Eohippus stood at
about 30 cm (12 in), or 3
hands tall, at the shoulder...
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focused increasingly on
browsing foods.
During the Eocene, an
Eohippus species (most
likely Eohippus angustidens)
branched out into
various new
types of Equidae...
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remaining species are now
thought to
belong to
different genera, such as
Eohippus,
which had
previously been
synonymised with Hyracotherium. Hyracotherium...
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Equidae Subfamily †Eohippinae
Genus †Epihippus
Genus †Haplohippus
Genus †
Eohippus Genus †Minippus
Subfamily †Propalaeotheriinae
Genus †Orohippus
Genus †Pliolophus...
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equids such as
Eohippus, as the
earliest evidence for
Orohippus appears about 2
million years after the
first appearance of
Eohippus. The anatomical...
- the
other extreme, an
early member of the order, the
prehistoric horse Eohippus, had a
withers height of only 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in).
Apart from dwarf...
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estimated at
about 60 cm.
Mesohippus had
longer legs than its
predecessor Eohippus and
stood about 60 cm (6 hands) tall. This
equid is the
first fully tridactyl...
- past 45 to 55 million
years from a
small multi-toed creature,
close to
Eohippus, into the large, single-toed
animal of today.
Humans began domesticating...
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Rattlesnake Formation,
including several now-extinct
species of
horse such as
Eohippus and Merychippus. "Strawberry". NGS Data Sheet.
National Geodetic Survey...
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other modern mammalian orders appeared,
including horses (most
notably the
Eohippus), bats,
proboscidians (elephants), primates, and rodents.
Older primitive...