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FLORIDA MIOCENE page 2

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MIOCENE HORSES 1

Below are three types of Early Miocene horses--the tiny and extremely rare Archaeohippus blackbergi, about as large as a medium-sized dog of ninety five pounds, the larger Parahippus leonensis, at around 160 pounds (Hulbert, The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida, pp284-5), and the larger still Anchitherium clerencei, extremely rare and known from only a few sites.

ARCHAEOHIPPUS

Archaeohippus lower right mandible. 4" long, $450 order mi852
COMMENTS: young adult, no wear on teeth and rear molar is unerrupted, four perfect teeth plus the unerrupted one. Jaw is solid. All in all a much better than average example of this very rare little horse.