Mesohippus bairdi Skeleton Replica

Description

Mesohippus bairdi Skeleton Replica measures 36.0  Height, 22.0 width. Mesohippus bairdi Skeleton Replica is museum-quality polyurethane resin cast. 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

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Mesohippus bairdi had low crowned teeth that would have been well suited to browsing leaves from bushes, small trees, and fruit.

Its long tail was over 1/4 its total body length. North American horses including Mesohippus bairdii had 17 thoracic vertebrae, while European horses had 18.

Mesohippus bairdi had long legs and stood 6 hands tall. This equid is the first fully tridactyl horse in the evolutionary record, with the third digit being longer and larger than its second and fourth digits.

Mesohippus bairdi had pads like seen in Hyracotherium and Orohippus. The face was longer and larger than earlier equids. It had a slight facial depression, in the skull. The eyes were rounder, and were set wider apart and farther back than in Hyracotherium.

Fossils of Mesohippus bairdi, the next important ancestor of the modern horse, are found in the early and middle Oligocene of North America (the Oligocene Epoch lasted from about 33.9 million to 23 million years ago).

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Subfamily: †Anchitheriinae
Genus: †Mesohippus
Scientific name: Mesohippus
Conservation Status: Extinct