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The genus Equus originated in North America and was derived from the late Hemphillian (late Miocene to earliest Pliocene) Dinohippus (Quinn, 1955). All the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and living monodactyl equids of North America and of the Old World — with the only exception of the possibly early Pliocene Astrohippus stocki Lance 1950 from Mexico — may be united in the genus Equus. Some authors, notably Quinn (1955, 1957), Nobis (1971), and Samson (1975), divided them into a variety of genera and subgenera. This practice will not be followed here and the generic name Equus will be used in the broad, traditional sense. This is because, in spite of significant variation among equids of different ages and geographic ranges, their basic structure remained remarkably uniform.
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Azzaroli, A. (1990). The Genus Equus in Europe. In: Lindsay, E.H., Fahlbusch, V., Mein, P. (eds) European Neogene Mammal Chronology. NATO ASI Series, vol 180. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2513-8_20
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