UCMP MYSTERY FOSSIL #26 is . . .
Hipparion


UCMP Mystery Fossil Number 26
If you guessed that this was “some kind of fossil horse,” then you get full credit, since many fossil horses are very similar in skull morphology. Hipparion, like modern horses, was a perissodactyl, having an odd number of toes on the hind feet. Find out more about perissodactyls here or see this particular specimen of Hipparion in our collections database.
 

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