GRAPHIC PREHISTORIC ANIMALS DAWN HORSE EOHIPPUS In O ILLUSTRATED BY ALESSANDRO POLUZZI Smart Apple Media
a WHAT IS A DAWN HORSED EOHIPPUS MEANS EARLY HORSE Eоhippus lived around 55 million to 50 million years ago during the Eocene period Fossils of its skeleton have been found in North America and Europe see page 22 ii It is also called Hyracotherium i It had four hoofed toes on S which means hyrax like because each front foot and three its fossil teeth looked like the teeth of hoofed toes on each back foot a hyraxa jungle rodent it It was the size of a modern day fox it It ate I leaves and shoots EOHIPPUS MEASURED ii Its small size 24 INCHES 61 CM and multi LONG AND 14 INCHES toed feet stopped it 36 CM HIGH IT from sinking into WEIGHED 55 POUNDS the boggy ground of the forest floor 25 KG i It had a large S brain for its body size meaning it was alert and intelligent This would be Eоhippus and
ANIMAL FACTS en million years after the Uring the Eocene extinction of the dinosaurs the there were two groups world was very warm Sub tropical of hooved animals called forests grew at the North and South ungulates One group had Poles while wet tropical rainforest an odd number of back toes covered North America and Europe The other had an even Many types of small light number In the Eocene mammals evolved to live in the odd toed ungulates such as steaming swampy overgrown Eоhippuses and tapirs jungles Among them was a small succeeded better than even toed extremely agile and alert browser ungulates such as mousedeer with hooved feet called Eohippus Eоhippus s largest toe evolved into the single hoof of today's horse rasslands had not yet appeared These first horses had no plains and no herds Eоhippus had only its own wits and dense undergrowth to protect it just like modern day muntjac deer below Eоhippus had teeth designed for browsing picking fresh leaves and new
