Equus conversidens, or the Mexican horse, was a Pleistocene species of horse, now extinct, that inhabited North America.
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The holotype of Equus conversidens, a partial palate, was unearthed in Pleistocene deposits northeast of Mexico City, Mexico. In January 1963, a partial skeleton was found in the city of Canyon, Texas in a white clay bed during the excavation of a basement, and was referred to E. conversidens by Dalquest and Hughes (1965), who interpreted the species as medium to small-sized, and added additional records of the species from Texas (including a skeleton from Slaton), Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Florida, synonymizing Equus francisci, Equus tau, E. littoralis, E. achates, and E. barcenaei with E. conversidens.[3]
^ abcdEquus conversidens Owen, 1869 in GBIF Secretariat (2017). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/4969230 on 2019-01-17.
^Dalquest, Walter W.; Hughes, Jack T. (1965). "The Pleistocene Horse, Equus conversidens". The American Midland Naturalist. 74 (2): 408–417. doi:10.2307/2423270. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2423270.
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