{"id":113,"date":"2018-11-14T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/?p=113"},"modified":"2018-12-06T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:50:56","slug":"a-new-genus-of-from-pleistocene-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/2018\/11\/14\/a-new-genus-of-from-pleistocene-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently published a paper clarifying the origins of a distinctive group of Ice Age horses, the New World Stilt-legged horses.\u00a0 These horses have very distinctive metapodials that when you see them in the field they jump out as very thin relative to the more robust form of the common\u00a0<em>Equus lambei<\/em> forms we commonly find.\u00a0 Pete Heintzman, who was a post-doc with Beth Shapiro&#8217;s group and working on some of our Klondike materials in the Yukon collection along with some fossils we recovered in 2010, isolated mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from these fossils and showed that the stilt-legged horses were not related to the living Asiatic asses such as the Tibetan Kulan or Persian Onager, but rather their own separate New World branch of horses.\u00a0 And importantly not just a new species, but actually a whole new genus that we call\u00a0<em>Haringtonhippus<\/em> after UofA Alum and palaeontologist-extraordinaire C.Richard Harington from the Canadian Museum of Nature who first described the Yukon horses.<\/p>\n<p>Pete wrote a popular version of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/thesciencebreaker.org\/breakers\/peter-d-heintzman\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently published a paper clarifying the origins of a distinctive group of Ice Age horses, the New World Stilt-legged horses.\u00a0 These horses have very distinctive metapodials that when you see them in the field they jump out as very thin relative to the more robust form of the common\u00a0Equus lambei forms we commonly find.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/2018\/11\/14\/a-new-genus-of-from-pleistocene-north-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/froeselab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}