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I. On fossil teeth of equines from central and South America, referable to equus conversidens, equus tau , and equus arcidens

1869; Royal Society; Volume: 17; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspl.1868.0042

2053-9126

Richard Owen,

The author, referring to his previous paper on the Equine fossil remains from the cavern of Bruniquel, finds, in the preliminary illustrations of the dental characters of existing species of the Horse-kind, the requisite and much-needed basis of comparison for the determination of other fossils of the Solidungulate group, and he devotes the present paper to the elucidation of those which have reached him from Central and South America. He commences by referring to the type-specimens of teeth, from two localities in South America, on which he founded the species E. curvidens , describing it (in 1840) “as one coexisting with the Megatherium, Toxodon, &c. in that continent, and which had become extinct at a prehistoric period.”