02-27-2019, 02:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-27-2019, 02:23 PM by SameerluvAnimals.)
(02-26-2019, 03:41 PM)Catherine Wrote: Equus Giganteus is an impressive horse. I knew there were horse fossils in North America. I thought they were for small horses. I have never heard of Equus Giganteus. It is normal for North America to have horses. Even though the horses we have now are introduced they belong here since we have no more of the horses we should have.
Before some years when i first saw few images of horse evolution, i was surprised that always the smallest equids were mentioned and the giant equids were eliminated. E.giganteus is known only from a tooth, so it's body proportions are unknown. So i wanted to give the build of a draft horse for E.giganteus which might be correct or wrong, we may never know it. If it looked like some common wild horse, it would have had a fairly large body with somewhat leaner legs. (Downs & Miller 1994 and Willoughby 1974 estimated the height of withers at 225 cm and weight at 1608 kg if this giant tooth is indeed a molar. But it may have been a premolar, in that case there are two estimations, 1250 kg and 1320 kg. This is still more than the average weight of a draft horse.)
