protohippus

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Noun1.Protohippus - Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in sizeprotohippus - Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size
Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
genus Protohippus - a genus of Equidae
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The two sites exhibit a notably similar composition of equid genera, including the tribes Equini (Pliohippus, Calippus, and Protohippus), and Hipparionini (Cormohipparion, Neohipparion, and Pseudhipparion).
A comparison of the Clarendonian equid assemblages from the Mission Pit, South Dakota and Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska
To formulate the model, take the species Protohippus simus in Figure 1 as an example.
Stabilizing selection and the comparative analysis of adaptation
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