Equus namadicus

Equus namadicus is a prehistoric equid, known from remains dating to the Middle and Late Pleistocene from across the Indian subcontinent, with its last dated records being approximately 29–14,000 years ago. It is considered a "stenonine horse", related to species like the European Equus stenonis, meaning that it is probably more closely related to zebras and asses than true horses. It is relatively large in size. It is very similar to the earlier Equus sivalensis, also from the Indian subcontinent, from which it only differs in size and in subtle aspects of dental anatomy, and it has sometimes been suggested to be a synonym of it.

A picture published with the record for Equus namadicus. What it shows has not been checked.

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Time the record covers

At least 645 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences774 ka129 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Equus namadicus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

20 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Devakachar — 23.01°N, 79.11°EDevakachar — 22.90°N, 77.88°EDevakachar — 25.01°N, 79.12°EDevakachar — 25.85°N, 77.90°EDevakachar — 23.11°N, 79.59°EDevakachar — 22.84°N, 77.87°ENarsingpur — 22.94°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Equus namadicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Equus namadicus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Equus namadicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Equus namadicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

5 references

Each of the 20 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Equus namadicus

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.