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Upper Teeth [6]
Grinding view
Upper Molar Drawing [8]
Anchitherium aurelianense
Fd. Germany
Color added
Upper Right True Molars [7]
Anchitherium bairdi
Fd. Dakota, USA
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[2] Simpson, George, Horses, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday
& Company, Inc., 1961), 259
[3] Wikipedia, Ibid.
[4] Woodward, Henry, A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department
of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), (London: Harrison and Sons, 1896), 38
[5] Cope, Edward and Matthew,
William, Hitherto Unpublished Plates of Tertiary Mammalia and Permian Vertebrata, (United States Government for the American
Museum of Natural HIstory, 1915), Plate CVIII
[6] Lydekker, R., A Geological History of Mammals, (Cambridge: At the University
Press.,1896), 167
[7] Lydekker, Richard, Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, Part III, (London: Taylor and Francis,
1886), 49
[8] Fraas,Dr. E., Der Petrefaktensammier, (Stuttgart, Germany: K.G. Lutz' Verlag, 1910), 69
[9] Licensed by [CC BY-SA 4.0
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[10] Adapted from A Guide to the Fossil Mammal and Birds in the Department of Geology
and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), 7th Ed. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1896), 39. (Numbers removed and gray
added)
By PePeEfe [9], via Wikimedia Commons
Upper Jaw Anchitherium sp.
Inferior view
Fd. Yacimiento Carpetana site, Madrid, Spain
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Perissodactyla/Equidae/Anchitheriiane
A
B
C
D
Upper Teeth and Forefeet [10]
A - Equus, B - Hipparion, C - Anchitherium, D - Orohippus (Hyracotherium)
Anchitherium
|
Size |
About 2 ft high at shoulders [1] |
|
Eye sockets |
|
|
Type of teeth |
Low crowned |
|
Toes |
Three toes per leg |
|
Hooves/pads |
Uncertain whether padded or hooves [2] |
|
Location(s) found |
North America, Europe, and Asia [3] |
|
Other |
Anchitherium aurelianense fd. France is larger than A. Bairdi fd. Nebraska Territory, USA [4] Similar to Kalobatippus [5] |
Hipparion