Natural History
Hyracotherium
Hyracotherium ( HY-rək-o-THEER-ee-əm; "hyrax-like beast") is an extinct genus of small (about 60 cm in length) perissodactyl ungulates that was found in the Eocene-aged London Clay formation. This small, fox-sized animal was once considered to be the earliest known member of Equidae before the type species, H. leporinum, was reclassified as a palaeothere. The remaining species are now thought to belong to different genera, such as Eohippus, which had previously been synonymised with Hyracotherium.
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El Kala National Park.
Community (ecology).
See also
- ▸Alto Golfo de California Biosphere Reserve
- ▸Edith Rosenbaum
- ▸List of examples of convergent evolution
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