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Equus excelsus
Taxonomy
Equus excelsus was named by Leidy (1858). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pawnee Loup branch of Niobrara River, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Nebraska.
It was synonymized subjectively with Equus occidentalis by Leidy (1873); it was synonymized subjectively with Equus complicatus by Gidley (1901); it was recombined as Allozebra excelsus by Trumler (1961).
It was synonymized subjectively with Equus occidentalis by Leidy (1873); it was synonymized subjectively with Equus complicatus by Gidley (1901); it was recombined as Allozebra excelsus by Trumler (1961).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. algericus, E. altidens, E. altidens, E. aluticus, E. antiquus, E. apolloniensis, E. athanasiui, E. bressanus, E. caballus, E. caballus, E. caballus, E. ferus, E. fraccisci, E. germanicus, E. gmelini, E. helmei, E. hipparionoides, E. hydruntinus, E. ident, E. koobiforensis, E. litoralis, E. livenzovensis, E. marxi, E. mauritanicus, E. mosbachensis, E. namadicus, E. namadicus, E. neogens, E. neogeus, E. oldowayensis, E. onager, E. petraloniensis, E. plicatus, E. przewalski, E. pygmaeus, E. robustus, E. simionescui, E. stehlini, E. steinheimensis, E. stenonis, E. sussenbornensis, E. taubachensis, E. valeriani, E. verae, E. helmei, E. koobiforensis, E. mauritanicus, E. oldowayensis, E. verae, E. neogaeus
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1858 | Equus excelsus Leidy p. 26 |
| 1880 | Equus excelsus Leidy |
| 1893 | Equus excelsus Cope p. 80 |
| 1902 | Equus excelsus Hay p. 623 |
| 1935 | Equus excelsus Schultz and Howard p. 285 |
| 1959 | Asinus aguascalentensis Mooser |
| 1959 | Onager arellanoi Mooser |
| 1959 | Onager hibbardi Mooser |
| 1961 | Allozebra excelsus Trumler |
| 1966 | Equus aguascalientensis Azzaroli |
| 1975 | Equus excelsus Mooser and Dalquest |
| 1980 | Equus excelsus Kurten and Anderson p. 291 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Equus excelsus Leidy 1858
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Invalid names: Asinus aguascalentensis Mooser 1959 [synonym], Onager arellanoi Mooser 1959 [synonym], Onager hibbardi Mooser 1959 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | Mexico (México) | Equus excelsus (163820) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Nebraska) | Equus excelsus (type locality: 234742) | |
| Pleistocene | Mexico (Jalisco) | Equus excelsus (20285) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Texas) | Equus excelsus (20498) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (Nebraska) | Equus excelsus (34382) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Oklahoma) | Equus excelsus (93178) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (New Mexico) | Equus excelsus (93281) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Oklahoma) | Equus excelsus (216271) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (New Mexico) | Equus excelsus (93377) |