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Most recent articles
Höwenegg
Wednesday 28 December 2011
The Hipparion of the Vallesian of Hà¶wenegg was described in an exhaustive monography by Bernor et al., 1997. There are several more or less complete skeletons (here, the data on associated phalanges 1, 2, and 3 are grouped in the same table). My personal data are very scarce.
BERNOR, R.L., (…)
Sexual dimorphism in Equus
Sunday 25 December 2011
The main and commonly known sexual dimorphism in Equus is the presence of well developed canines at least on the maxillar in males and the almost constant lack of canines in females.
Moreover, the pubian symphysis is flatter in females after their first parturition.
Concerning the limb bones (…)
Lubéron Introduction
Friday 9 December 2011
The material from Mont Lubéron is not homogeneous. It is also often broken and distorted. Together with the predominant Hipparion prostylum (Gervais, 1849, 1859) there are fossils of smaller and larger hiparions (Zouhri & Bensalmia 2005).
The data given here correspond only to the part of (…)
Dereivka Introduction
Friday 18 November 2011
Since the 1960ies, the site of Dereivka in Ukraine, referred to the Sredni Stog culture, has been considered as the first center of horse domestication. The datations of 4200-4000 BC seem well founded and numerous cultural, anatomic and taphonomic arguments has been advanced in support (…)
Mezin, Introduction
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Mezin (Ukraine) is a prehistoric site about 24000 years old well known for its shelter in mammouth bones (http://donsmaps.com/wolfcamp.html).
Remains of Equus at the Zoological lnstitute of Kiev, are well preserved although not very abundant. They do not look homogeneous, probably because they (…)
Introduction
Thursday 6 October 2011
About 50 years ago, Jean Brunet, who was studying Equus and Hipparion, took photographs of some British equids, in particular of Hipparion teeth from the Red Crag, Suffolk and left them to me. Some of the teeth were illustrated and discussed by Pirlot (1956).
Metapodials of H. crassum have (…)
Montredon, Introduction
Monday 26 September 2011
The Vallesian Hipparion from Montredon have already been described and discussed in an old paper 64.Les Périssodactyles Equidae de Montredon..
Here raw data (instead of statistical tables) and more photographs are made available.
The material is not homogeneous: fossils of Hipparion (…)
Introduction
Thursday 21 July 2011
This section contains mainly my personal data (photographs and measurements).
Some photographs were also taken from the thesis of Maria-Teresa Alberdi :
El Genero Hipparion en Espaà±a, Nuevas formas de Castilla y Andalucia, revision e historia evolutiva. Madrid 1972.
See also :
– Alberdi, (…)
Comparisons with Old World Hipparions
Thursday 3 June 2010
The scatter diagram SD-6 shows that (as far as I know) all Old World Hipparion skulls belong to Group B except H. prostylum (Lubéron LY 592) which has the same proportions as Group A-8 ( Ratio diagram A-8 and H. prostylum).
– H. hendeyi (Langebaanweg E 22187), although larger, resembles (…)
Chronology
Thursday 3 June 2010
From the chronology of the sites (probably outdated table), it appears that the Group A is very old: Thomson, Echo Quarry, Trinity River. Even the brachyodont Mesohippus, Miohippus (Meso-Mio), Hypohippus, Megahippus and Parahippus (Hypo-Mega-Para) have the same shortness of the naso-incisival (…)
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