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Eurohippus messelensis

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Eurohippus messelensis (Propalaeotherium messelense) Haupt 1925

    Eocene

    Lutetian

    Messel near Darmstadt

    Germany

    Length 62cm / 24"

    in foal, some of the bones belong to a fetus

    This DAWN HORSE is comparable in age and size to the one found in Kemmerer (Eohippus or Hyracotherium)

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I found this and all of my other Messel stuff (most of it not yet in the Gallery - several crocodiles, turtles, birds, bats, frogs and of course fish, fish and even more fish are still missing) between 1968 and 1975 (from that time on, the pit was "off limits" for private collectors).

Thomas

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Biotalker

This is a magnificent find! Did you have to use the resin technique I have been hearing about back then or was the substrate intact enough in the part you found this and other specimens? 

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