Dictionary definition: ‘Eohippus’

Dictionary definition: Eohippus
A Dictionary of Zoology;      218 words ...Eohippus See HYRACOTHERIUM .

Encyclopedia entry: eohippus
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      239 words ...eohippus see horse .

Article: Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  May 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... indicated two fossils, Archaeopteryx and Eohippus, as transitional fossils. Archeopteryx ... to feathers, legs to wings, etc.? Eohippus is a small "horse" with multi-toed ... difference of opinion by evolutionists whether Eohippus should even be considered in the horse ...

Chapter 1 History and development of the horse.
Equine Science, 3rd ed.;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Calippus cavalry centaur draft Eocene epoch Eohippus evolution gelding hackamore hybrids Hyracotherium ... expressed in terms of millions of years. Eohippus. The earliest ancestor of the present horse, Eohippus or Hyracotherium, was a small, primitive ...

Article: Ancient beasts released
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 16, 1996 ;     468 words ... ... of stamps. The prehistoric hairy beasts are joined by the eohippus and the saber-toothed cat on a block of four stamps released ... for reserve food and protection against harsh climates. The eohippus was a prehistoric miniature version of today's horse. It ...

Article: '96 Designs Will Run the Gamut
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 12, 1995 ;     582 words ... ... the Olympic Games, Georgia O'Keeffe, riverboats, the eohippus and spring flowers will all be honored next year on the new ... saber-toothed cat, the mastodon, the woolly mammoth and the eohippus, an early-model horse. Famed American painter Georgia O ...

Dictionary definition: Hyracotherium
A Dictionary of Zoology;      392 words ... ... suborder Hippomorpha , family Equidae ) Known formerly as Eohippus (the ‘dawn horse’), the earliest known ... America the fossils were identified correctly and the name Eohippus was adopted, but according to the rules of taxonomic nomenclature ...