A New Genus of Horse from Pleistocene North America ( Yukon )

[Oxytropidoceras]

Ice age fossils from Yukon help identify new horse genus

Stilt-legged horses — extinct since the last ice age —

are unrelated to modern horses, donkeys and zebras

CBC News, November 28, 2017

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-horse-genus-dawson-fossils-1.4423896

 

The paper is:

 

Heintzman, P.D., Zazula, G.D., MacPhee, R.D., Scott, E., Cahill,

J.A., McHorse, B.K., Kapp, J.D., Stiller, M., Wooller, M.J., Orlando,

L. and Southon, J.R., 2017. A new genus of horse from

Pleistocene North America. bioRxiv, p.154963.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/24/154963

https://elifesciences.org/articles/29944

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.