Hagerman horse

Hagerman horse
Temporal range: Pliocene-Late Pleistocene
Mounted skeleton of a Hagerman horse
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
Subgenus: Dolichohippus
Species:
E. simplicidens
Binomial name
Equus simplicidens
Cope, 1892
Synonyms
  • Plesippus shoshonensis Gidley, 1930

Equus simplicidens, sometimes known as the Hagerman horse or the American Zebra is an extinct species of equine native to North America during the Pliocene and Early-Late Pleistocene. It is one of the oldest and most primitive members of the genus Equus. Abundant remains of it were discovered in 1928 in Hagerman, Idaho. It is the state fossil of Idaho.

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