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Equus cedralensis Alberdi et al. 2014

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

E. cedralensis is considered a junior synonym of Haringtonhippus francisci by (Jiménez-Hidalgo & Díaz-Sibaja, 2020).

 

Conservation Status

Invalid?

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Mexico

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Alberdi, María Teresa, Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquín, Marín-Leyva, Alejandro H. and Polaco, Oscar J. (2014). Study of Cedral Horses and their place in the Mexican Quaternary. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 31(2): 221-237.

 

Other references:

Bravo-Cuevas, Victor Manuel and Jiménez-Hidalgo, Eduardo. (2018). Advances on the Paleobiology of Late Pleistocene mammals from central and southern Mexico, pp. 277-313. In: Huard, Gaeten and Gareau, Jeannine (eds.). The Pleistocene: Geography, Geology, and Fauna. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Christina I. Barrón-Ortiz , Antonia T. Rodrigues, Jessica M. Theodor, Brian P. Kooyman, Dongya Y. Yang and Camilla F. Speller. (2017). Cheek tooth morphology and ancient mitochondrial DNA of late Pleistocene horses from the western interior of North America: Implications for the taxonomy of North American Late Pleistocene Equus. PLoS ONE12(8): e0183045.

Cirilli, Omar, Machado, H., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Barrón-Ortiz, C. I., Davis, E., Jass, C. N., Jukar, A. M., Landry, Z., Marín-Leyva, A. H., Pandolfi, L., Pushkina, D., Rook, L., Saarinen, J., Scott, E., Semprebon, G., Strani, F., Villavicencio, N. A., Kaya, F. and Bernor, R. L. (2022). Evolution of the Family Equidae, Subfamily Equinae, in North, Central and South America, Eurasia and Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene. Biology 11(9): 1258. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11091258

Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo; Roberto Díaz-Sibaja (2020). Was Equus cedralensis a non-stilt legged horse? Taxonomical implications for the Mexican Pleistocene horses. Ameghiniana 57(3): 284-288. doi:10.5710/AMGH.06.01.2020.3262 [Abstract]

 

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