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Equus scotti

Equus scotti (translated from Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
as Scott's horse) is an extinct

Extinction

In biology and ecology, extinction is the death of every member of a species or group of taxon. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species ....
species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
of Equus
Equus (genus)

Equus is a genus of animals in the Family Equidae that includes horses, donkeys, and zebras. Within Equidae, Equus is the only Extant taxon genus....
, the genus

Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
that includes the horse

Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
. E. scotti was native to North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
and South America

South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
and may have crossed to North America from Eurasia

Eurasia

Eurasia is a large landmass covering about 53,990,000 km? or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface . Often considered a single continent, Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia, concepts which date back to classical antiquity and the borders for which are somewhat arbitrary....
over the Bering land bridge

Bering land bridge

The Bering land bridge was a land bridge roughly 1,000 miles north to south at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages....
several million years ago. The species died out at the end of the last ice age in the large-scale Pleistocene extinction

Holocene extinction event

The Holocene extinction event is the widespread, ongoing mass extinction of species during the modern Holocene epoch . The large number of extinctions span numerous families of plants and animals including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods; a sizeable fraction of these extinctions are occurring in the rainforests....
of megafauna

Megafauna

The term megafauna has two distinct meanings in the biological sciences. The less commonly found meaning is of any animal which can be seen with the unaided eye, in contrast to microfauna....
.

It was the last of the native horse species in the Americas until the reintroduction of the horse approximately 10,000 years later, when conquistador

Conquistador

Conquistador is the name given to the Spaniards soldiers, leaders, List of explorers, and adventurers involved in the conquest of the Americas following the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492....
s brought modern horses to North and South America circa 1500 AD, some of which later escaped to the wild and became ancestors of the many feral horse

Feral horse

A feral horse is a free-roaming horse of domestication ancestry. As such, a feral horse is not a wild animal in the sense of an animal without domesticated ancestors....
s living today in the Americas.

aeological recovery has identified the locations of numerous specific places where E.

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Equus scotti (translated from Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
as Scott's horse) is an extinct
Extinction

In biology and ecology, extinction is the death of every member of a species or group of taxon. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species ....
species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
of Equus
Equus (genus)

Equus is a genus of animals in the Family Equidae that includes horses, donkeys, and zebras. Within Equidae, Equus is the only Extant taxon genus....
, the genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
that includes the horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
. E. scotti was native to North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
and South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
and may have crossed to North America from Eurasia
Eurasia

Eurasia is a large landmass covering about 53,990,000 km? or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface . Often considered a single continent, Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia, concepts which date back to classical antiquity and the borders for which are somewhat arbitrary....
over the Bering land bridge
Bering land bridge

The Bering land bridge was a land bridge roughly 1,000 miles north to south at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages....
several million years ago. The species died out at the end of the last ice age in the large-scale Pleistocene extinction
Holocene extinction event

The Holocene extinction event is the widespread, ongoing mass extinction of species during the modern Holocene epoch . The large number of extinctions span numerous families of plants and animals including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods; a sizeable fraction of these extinctions are occurring in the rainforests....
of megafauna
Megafauna

The term megafauna has two distinct meanings in the biological sciences. The less commonly found meaning is of any animal which can be seen with the unaided eye, in contrast to microfauna....
.

It was the last of the native horse species in the Americas until the reintroduction of the horse approximately 10,000 years later, when conquistador
Conquistador

Conquistador is the name given to the Spaniards soldiers, leaders, List of explorers, and adventurers involved in the conquest of the Americas following the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492....
s brought modern horses to North and South America circa 1500 AD, some of which later escaped to the wild and became ancestors of the many feral horse
Feral horse

A feral horse is a free-roaming horse of domestication ancestry. As such, a feral horse is not a wild animal in the sense of an animal without domesticated ancestors....
s living today in the Americas.

Distribution
Archaeological recovery has identified the locations of numerous specific places where E. scotti occurred. One of the locations farthest south in the Americas is Pali Aike National Park
Pali-Aike Volcanic Field

Pali-Aike Volcanic Field is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene volcanic field in Patagonia on the Argentina?Chile border, located north of the Straits of Magellan about 150 km northwest of Punta Arenas, Chile....
in Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
. One of the early fossil finds was in state of Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
in the USA. A closely related fossil find was made of Equus bautisensis in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
; this species appeared closely related, but of a slightly more primitive form than E. scotti. However, E. bautisensis was redefined as a Jr. synonym of E. sotti in 1998 by paleontologist E. Scott.

See also

Evolution of the Horse
Evolution of the horse

The evolution of the horse involves the gradual development of the modern horse from the fox-sized, forest-dwelling Hyracotherium. Paleozoology have been able to piece together a more complete picture of the modern horse's evolutionary lineage than that of any other animal....
Equus lambei