Equus mexicanus Hibbard, 1955
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Equus midlandensis Quinn 1957; Onager oviedoi Mooser 1959
Conservation Status
Extinct if valid
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Mexico & New Mexico, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hibbard, C. W. (1955). Pleistocene vertebrates from the upper Becerra (Becerra Superior) Formation, Valley of Tequixquiac, Mexico, with notes on others Pleistocene forms: Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 12(5): 47-96.
Other references:
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.
Azzaroli, A. (1998). The genus Equus in North America: The Pleistocene species = Le genre Equus en Amérique du Nord - Les espèces du Pléistocène. Palaeontographia Italica 85: 1-60. [Abstract]
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.
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
Gidley, J.W., 1900, A new species of Pleistocene Horse from the Staked Plains of Texas: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 13, 111-116.
Leidy, J., 1865, Bones and teeth of horses from California and Oregon: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 17, 94.
Leidy, J., 1868, Notice of some remains of Horses: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 20, 195.
Miller, Wade et al. (2022). Post-Pleistocene horses (Equus) from México. The Texas Journal of Science 74(1): 5. https://doi.org/10.32011/txjsci_74_1_Article5
O. Mooser and W. W. Dalquest. (1975). Pleistocene mammals from Aguascalientes, central Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy 56(4): 781-820.
Pérez-Crespo, Víctor Adrián et al. (2022). Feeding habits and mobility of Equus conversidens and E. mexicanus from La Presita Blanca, State of San Luis Potosí, México. Historical Biology 34(2): 216-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.1909008