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Equidae (horse)
The odd-toed ungulate family Equidae includes all living and fossil horses. It spread throughout the northern hemisphere shortly after it originated in the earliest Eocene and reached Africa by the late Miocene. It was diverse and abundant in North America throughout the Cenozoic, and several subclades including the low-crowned anchitheriines, the high-crowned hipparionines, and the modern genus Equus emigrated to the Old World at different times.
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It was assigned to Monochenae by Gray (1821); to Ungulata by Gray (1825); to Belluae by Bonaparte (1850); to Solidungula by Leidy (1873); to Perissodactyla by Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Lambe (1908); to Chelodactyla by Scott (1913); to Hippomorpha by Forsten (1975) and Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Hippomorpha by Froehlich (2002); to Equoidea by Hay (1902), Bernor (1985), Carroll (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Hooker (1994), Hooker and Dashzeveg (2004) and Franzen (2006); to Perissodactyla by Cope (1889) and Dos Santos Avilla et al. (2015); and to Perissodactyla by Cope (1881), Flower (1883), Lance (1950), Quinn (1955), Quinn (1957), Mooser (1958), Johnson (1966), Mooser (1968), Sondaar (1974), Kurten and Anderson (1980), MacFadden (1986), Baskin (1991), Nowak (1991), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), MacFadden (2009), Rose et al. (2012), Ferrusquía-Villafranca et al. (2014), Eshelman et al. (2018) and Lofgren et al. (2020).
Year | Name and author |
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1821 | Equidae Gray p. 307 |
1825 | Equidae Gray p. 342 |
1850 | Equidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
1873 | Equidae Leidy p. 321 |
1881 | Equidae Cope p. 400 |
1883 | Equidae Flower p. 185 |
1889 | Equidae Cope p. 876 |
1891 | Equidae Flower and Lydekker p. 90 |
1902 | Equidae Hay p. 608 |
1908 | Equidae Lambe |
1913 | Equidae Scott p. 290 |
1950 | Equidae Lance |
1955 | Equidae Quinn |
1957 | Equidae Quinn p. 10 |
1958 | Equidae Mooser p. 360 |
1966 | Equidae Johnson p. 80 |
1968 | Equidae Mooser p. 1 |
1974 | Equidae Sondaar |
1975 | Equidae Forsten p. 3 |
1980 | Equidae Kurten and Anderson p. 283 |
1981 | Equidae Thurmond and Jones p. 183 |
1985 | Equidae Bernor |
1986 | Equidae MacFadden p. 467 |
1988 | Equidae Carroll |
1989 | Equidae Prothero and Schoch p. 531 |
1991 | Equidae Baskin p. 999 |
1991 | Equidae Nowak |
1994 | Equidae Hooker |
2002 | Equidae Froehlich p. 159 fig. 1 |
2004 | Equidae Hooker and Dashzeveg p. 1374 |
2005 | Equidae Wilson and Reeder |
2006 | Equidae Franzen |
2006 | Equidae Hulbert and Whitmore p. 13 |
2009 | Equidae MacFadden |
2012 | Equidae Rose et al. |
2014 | Equidae Ferrusquía-Villafranca et al. p. 204 |
2015 | Equidae Dos Santos Avilla et al. pp. 925909-3 |
2018 | Equidae Eshelman et al. p. 8 |
2020 | Equidae Lofgren et al. |
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