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Equus francisci

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Taxonomy
Equus francisci was named by Hay (1915) [NOT E. francisi, a misspelling; also said to be 1913]. Its type specimen is TAMU 2518, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was synonymized subjectively with Equus conversidens by Hay (1915), Hibbard (1939), Hibbard and Taylor (1960) and Dalquest and Hughes (1965); it was recombined as Asinus francisci by Quinn (1955) and Hibbard (1958); it was synonymized subjectively with Equus (Hemionus) tau by Dalquest (1979); it was synonymized subjectively with Equus tau by Kurten and Anderson (1980); it was recombined as Haringtonhippus francisci by Heintzman et al. (2017).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Equus francisci Hay
1915Equus calobatus Troxel
1915Equus (Asinus) calobatus Troxell p. 615 fig. 4
1955Asinus francisci Quinn p. 52
1958Asinus francisci Hibbard
1958Equus arrelanoi Mooser
1962Equus quinni Slaughter et al.
1966Equus quinni Slaughter p. 89
1970Equus francisci Lundelius and Stevens p. 152
1972Equus (Hemionus) calobatus Skinner p. 124
1980Equus calobatus Kurten and Anderson p. 288
1984Equus francisci Lundelius, Jr.
1992Equus (Asinus) calobatus Dalquest and Schultz
1993Equus francisci Harris
1995Equus francisci Hulbert, Jr.
2007Equus francisci Morgan and Rinehart p. 40
2017Haringtonhippus francisci Heintzman et al. p. 5
2019Equus francisci Barrón-Ortiz et al. p. 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
superfamilyEquoidea
familyEquidae
subfamilyEquinae
tribeEquini
genusEquus
speciesfrancisci

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 francisci Hay 1915
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Invalid names: Equus (Asinus) calobatus Troxell 1915 [synonym], Equus arrelanoi Mooser 1958 [synonym], Equus quinni Slaughter et al. 1962 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
P. D. Heintzman et al. 2017Haringtonhippus is the sister genus to Equus (equid crown group), with Hippidion being sister to the Haringtonhippus-Equus clade (Figure 1). Haringtonhippus can be differentiated from Equus and Hip- pidion by 178 synapomorphic positions in the mitochondrial genome, including four insertions and 174 substitutions (Appendix 1—Table 2 and Appendix 1—table 2—source data 1). We caution that these synapomorphies are tentative and will likely be reduced in number as a greater diversity of mitochondrial genomes for extinct equids become available.