Equus santaeelenae Spillmann, 1938
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct if valid
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Peru
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Spillmann, F. (1938). Die fossilen Pferde Ekuadors der Gattung Neohippus. Palaeobiologica 6: 372-393.
Other references:
Churcher, C. S. (1985). Equids (genus Amerhippus) from the Sangamon at Medicine Hat, Alberta. In Fourth International Theriological Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Abstract 0114.
Ficcarelli, G., Coltorti, M., Moreno-Espinosa, M., Pieruccini, P. L., Rook, L. and Torre, D. (2003). A model for the Holocene extinction of the mammal megafauna in Ecuador. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 15: 835-845.
Lindsey, Emily L. and Lopez, R., Eric X. (2015). Tanque Loma, a new late-Pleistocene megafaunal tar seep locality from southwest Ecuador. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 57: 61-82.
Prado, J. L. and Alberdi, M. T. (1994). A quantitative review of the horse Equus from South America. Palaeontology 37: 459-481.
Rincón, A.D., M.T. Alberdi, and J.L. Prado. (2006). Nuevo registro de Equus (Amerhippus) santaeelenae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) del pozo de asfalto de Inciarte (Pleistoceno Superior), estado Zulia, Venezuela. Ameghiniana 43: 529-538.
Rincón, A.D., R.S. White, and G. McDonald. (2008). Late Pleistocene cingulates (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Mene de Inciarte tar pits, Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1): 197-207.
Seymour, Kevin L. (2015). Perusing Talara: Overview of the Late Pleistocene Fossils from the Tar Seeps of Peru, pp. 97-109. In: Harris, John M. (ed.). La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt-Preserved Biotas. Los Angeles, California: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series No. 42. 174 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.