Fossil Pleistocene Equus (Horse) Toe from Florida, USA- Lot 100, Auction 11/26/2018
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Fossil Pleistocene Equus (Horse) Toe from Florida, USA- Lot 100, Auction 11/26/2018

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New World, Florida, USA, Pleistocene period, the Ice Age, ca. 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago. The fossilized four lower bones of the toe of a horse (Equus caballus): coffin bone (distal phalanx), short pastern bone (middle phalanx), long pastern bone (proximal phalanx), and either a third metacarpal or metatarsal bone. The animals of the Equus genus evolved over 50 million years, their feet slowly lengthening to give them speed to outrun predators across the grasslands that were their natural habitat until only their third toe touched the ground, as you see here and in modern horses. The animals lived throughout North America until the end of the Ice Age, when they went extinct everywhere but the Old World (they returned to the New World with the Spanish). Size: 3″ W x 15.2″ H (7.6 cm x 38.6 cm); 16.2″ H (41.1 cm) on included custom stand.

Condition: Tiny loss to front tip of hoof. Bones may be from different individuals based on their colors at deposition. Displayed as articulated.

Provenance: private Hagar collection, St. Louis, Missouri, USA collection

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