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Merychippus

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Merychippus
a primitive stage in the evolution of the horse that existed in the Miocene era.
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Xiaoming Wang, associate curator for the museum's vertebrate paleontology department, went out to investigate after seeing the photos, which show the upper nose plus a little bit of the teeth root of what may be a 3 1/2-foot-tall horse called merychippus that lived at the same time as mastodons and saber-toothed cats.
HIKE'S PREHISTORIC PAYOFF SKULL FOSSIL THOUGHT TO BE 3-TOED HORSE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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