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RE: [RC] Eohippus Discussion - John Teeter> Not that it is a bad discussion mind you. Just adding this in b/c I'm feeling a bit home-sick (Hagerman is upstream from Oreana about 80 miles or so:) johnt ============================= http://www.nps.gov/hafo/ Hagerman Horse Fossil (Equus simplicidens) originally described as (Plesippus shoshonensis) Adopted on March 16, 1988. The 1988 legislature designated the Hagerman Horse Fossil as the official state fossil. Horses evolved in Asia and they entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge, a connection between Alaska and Siberia during a time of lowered sea level. They went extinct in North America around 10,000 years ago. The Hagerman Horse lived in Idaho during the Pliocene Epoch, around 3.5 million years ago. It shared a grassy plains/riverine habitat with mastodons, sabertooth cats, beavers, otters, and waterfowl. The average Hagerman Horse was about the same size as a modern zebra or Arabian horse, and likely possessed a stiff mane and fur arrangement similar to that of these modern equines. The Hagerman horse is the oldest known representative of the modern horse genus Equus (includes horses, donkeys, and zebras) and is believed to be more closely related to the living Grevy's zebra in Africa. The 3.5 million year old sediments at the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument contain the world's richest known fossil deposits from the late Pliocene epoch. ============================================================ Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough ~ Theodore Roosevelt ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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