In 1981, the American Museum of Natural History invited a group of Horse specialists at a "New York International Hipparion Conference" with many purposes. One of them was to bring together for the duration of the conference original interesting specimens, in particular skulls, dispersed through (…)
In a very detailed article J. de Porta (1960) redescribed the type skull of E. (Amerhippus) lasallei found at Cerrogordo in la Sabana de Bogota at a height of abount 2600m.
All pictures and data given here come from this article.
As noted by J. de Porta, the cranium is very large, elongated, (…)
Azzaroli A. (1992). The present status of knowledge on the Ecuadorian species of the genus Equus. Bolletino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 31(1), 133-139.
Machado H. and Avilla L. (2019). The Diversity of South American Equus: Did Size really Matter? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, (…)