Genomics and the evolutionary history of equids

P Librado, L Orlando - Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The equid family contains only one single extant genus, Equus, including seven living
species grouped into horses on the one hand and zebras and asses on the other. In …

What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe

AB MarÍN‐Arroyo, A Sanz‐Royo - Journal of Quaternary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in northern Spain has revealed the disappearance of Neanderthal
populations in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region a few millennia earlier than in eastern and …

Revising the recent evolutionary history of equids using ancient DNA

L Orlando, JL Metcalf, MT Alberdi… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The rich fossil record of the family Equidae (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) over the past 55 MY
has made it an icon for the patterns and processes of macroevolution. Despite this, many …

Biostratigraphy and Palaeoecology of European Equus

N Boulbes, EN Van Asperen - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We present an inventory of the progress of recent research on the biostratigraphy and
palaeoecology of the genus Equus sensu lato in Europe. Our discussion starts with the new …

A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America

PD Heintzman, GD Zazula, RDE MacPhee, E Scott… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The extinct 'New World stilt-legged', or NWSL, equids constitute a perplexing group of
Pleistocene horses endemic to North America. Their slender distal limb bones resemble …

Geographic distribution of an extinct equid (Equus hydruntinus: Mammalia, Equidae) revealed by morphological and genetical analyses of fossils

L Orlando, M Mashkour, A Burke, CJ Douady… - Molecular …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Equus hydruntinus inhabited Europe and the Middle East for more than 300 000 years. For a
long time, palaeontological data failed to place E. hydruntinus into the equid phylogenetic …

A Geographic Assessment of the Global Scope for Rewilding with Wild-Living Horses (Equus ferus)

PJ Naundrup, JC Svenning - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Megafaunas worldwide have been decimated during the late Quaternary. Many extirpated
species were keystone species, and their loss likely has had large effects on ecosystems …

Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà, Barcelona): the landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the “Ebro frontier” and implications for modern human dispersal …

J Daura, M Sanz, N García, E Allué, M Vaquero… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars is an Upper Pleistocene fluvial deposit containing the
remains of large mammals, principally accumulated in the framework of hyena denning in …

Holocene extinction dynamics of Equus hydruntinus, a late-surviving European megafaunal mammal

JJ Crees, ST Turvey - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The European wild ass (Equus hydruntinus) is a globally extinct Eurasian equid.
This species was widespread in Europe and southwest Asia during the Late Pleistocene, but …

Timing of the emergence of the Europe–Sicily bridge (40–17 cal ka BP) and its implications for the spread of modern humans

F Antonioli, V Lo Presti, MG Morticelli… - Geological Society …, 2016 - lyellcollection.org
The submerged sill in the Strait of Messina, which is located today at a minimum depth of 81
m below sea level (bsl), represents the only land connection between Sicily and mainland …