- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic
- Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities
- Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities
- Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
- Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa
- Twenty-Six Creodonta
- Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata)
- Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora
- Thirty Chiroptera
- Thirty-One Pholidota
- Thirty-Two Carnivora
- Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae
- Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae
- Thirty-Five Equidae
- Thirty-Six Tragulidae
- Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis
- Thirty-Eight Bovidae
- Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea
- Forty Cervidae
- Forty-One Camelidae
- Forty-Two Suoidea
- Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Forty-Four Hippopotamidae
- Forty-Five Cetacea
- Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals
- Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa
- Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil
- Index
Equidae
Equidae
- Chapter:
- (p.685) Thirty-Five Equidae
- Source:
- Cenozoic Mammals of Africa
- Author(s):
Raymond L. Bernor
Miranda J. Armour-Chelu
Henry Gilbert
Thomas M. Kaiser
Ellen Schulz
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Representatives of the Equidae in Africa are known from localities of late Miocene to Recent age, approximately 10.5 Ma to the present. Three-toed equids of the tribe Hipparionini first occur in the early late Miocene, and persist to about 0.5 Ma. The first appearance of the genus Equus in eastern Africa is in the Omo Shungura sequence (lower Member G), ca. 2.33 Ma. The Eurasian genus Cremohipparion apparently made a successful range extension into northern Africa during the later portion of the late Miocene, while Hipparion s.s. may also occur at Sahabi. Eurygnathohippus is a genus of African Hipparionini that first appear in the late Miocene Nawata Formation, Kenya, and successfully spread throughout nontropical forest Africa in the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. This chapter describes the systematic paleontology of Equidae. It follows Churcher and Richardson (1978) closely in taxonomic allocation of African species of Equus and adopts Groves (2002) in general for the systematics of extant African Equus species. It also provides an update on the dietary behavior of extant zebras and emergent work on African hipparion paleodiet.
Keywords: Equus, paleontology, Equidae, Africa, Miocene, equids, Hipparionini, paleodiet, zebras, Cremohipparion
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic
- Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities
- Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities
- Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
- Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa
- Twenty-Six Creodonta
- Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata)
- Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora
- Thirty Chiroptera
- Thirty-One Pholidota
- Thirty-Two Carnivora
- Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae
- Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae
- Thirty-Five Equidae
- Thirty-Six Tragulidae
- Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis
- Thirty-Eight Bovidae
- Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea
- Forty Cervidae
- Forty-One Camelidae
- Forty-Two Suoidea
- Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Forty-Four Hippopotamidae
- Forty-Five Cetacea
- Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals
- Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa
- Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil
- Index
