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Eohippus
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see horse.
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Horse - hoofed, herbivorous mammal now represented by a single extant genus, Equus.
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EOHIPPUS
Eohippus was a tiny horse that lived 50 million years ago.
HORSE
Horses are very fast runners. Primitive horses were very small.
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This animal, also small, a forest dweller and eater of leaves, we call Eohippus (or dawn horse).
Some 30 million years after the appearance of Eohippus a new horse-like animal appeared.
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The evolution of the horse can be traced through fossil remains to Eohippus, a small, leaf-browsing mammal of the EOCENE EPOCH. Eohippus, about the size of a fox, had four toes on its forefeet and three on its hind feet.
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The earliest type of horse, the hyracotherium or Eohippus , lived in some 45 to 50 million years ago, during the EOCENE EPOCH . The size varied from 10 to 20 in. high ; they had four toes on each foot and three toes on each hind foot.
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 See also: Zebra, Tapir, Rhinoceros, Quagga, Rhino
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