Equus ferus latipes (Gromova, 1949)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Equus caballus latipes Gromova, 1949; Equus caballus chosaricus Gromova, 1949; Equus taubachensis Vangenheim, 1966; Equus caballus orientalis Russanov, 1968; Equus remagensis Nobis, 1971; Equus germanicus Forstén, 1995; Equus (Equus) latipes Kuzmina, 1997
Whether E. germanicus is a distinct species remains unresolved.
Conservation Status
Extinct if valid
Last record: Holocene
Distribution
Europe
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gromova, V. (1949). Istorija loshadej (roda Equus) v Starom Svete, Chast’ 2, Evoljutsija i klasifikatsija roda. Trudy paleontologicheskovo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 17: 1-162. (in Russian)
Other references:
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Demay, Laëtitia and Obadă, Theodor. (2021). Complementary analyses of the faunal remains of the lower level of Climăuţi II (Republic of Moldova). Arheologia Moldovei 44: 251-272.
Demeshkant, Vitalii. (2021). Tooth enamel morphology of selected Pleistocene-Holocene horses of Ukraine, pp. 22. In: Ratajczak-Skrzatek U., Kovalchuk O., Stefaniak K. (eds.). Proceedings of INQUA SEQS 2021 Conference, Wrocław, Poland. University of Wrocław & Polish Geological Society. 119 pp.
Dzhebir, Gyulnas et al. (2018). Comparative genetic analysis of subfossil wild horses (from the Neolithic Age and Early Bronze Age) and present-day domestic horses from Bulgaria. Historia naturalis bulgarica 25: 3-10.
Forstén, A. and Ziegler, R. (1995). The horses (Mammalia, Equidae) from the early Wuermian of Villa Seckendorf, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Series B, Geologie und Paläontologie 224.
Fourvel, Jean-Baptiste, Fosse, Philippe, Fernandez, Philippe and Antoine, Pierre-Olivier. (2014). La grotte de Fouvent, dit l’Abri Cuvier (Fouvent-le-Bas, Haute-Saône, France): analyse taphonomique d’un repaire d’hyènes du Pléistocène supérieur (OIS 3). PALEO 25: 79-99.
Kuzmina, I. E. (1997). Horses of North Eurasia from the Pliocene till the present time. Russian Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute 273 (ed. N.K. Vereschagin), Saint-Petersburg. (in Russian with English summary)
Nobis, G. (1971). Vom Wildpferd zum Hauspferd, Studien zur Phylogenie pleistozäner Equiden Eurasiens und das Domestikationsproblem unserer Hauspferde. Fundamenta Reihe B, Band 6. Böhlau Verlag, Köln.
Pushkina, Diana. (2024). Paleoecology and body mass distribution of horses in northern Eurasia during the PleistocenePaleoecology and body mass distribution of horses in northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene. Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 281-302.
Russanov, B. S. (1968). Biostratigraphy of the Cenozoic sediments of southern Yakutia. Nauka, Moscow. [In Russian]
Vangenheim, E. A. (1966). Description of the remains of E. caballus cf. taubachensis from Upper Palaeolithic site Sungir, p. 118-139. In: Sukachev, V.N., Gromov, V.I. and Bader, O.N. (eds.), Upper Palaeolithic site Sungir. Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 162. [in Russian]