The horse's single toe on each of its four feet is its most marked anatomical characteristic and makes it a perissodactyl or odd-toed ungulate. |
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During the later Cenozoic, perissodactyl diversity declined markedly, but artiodactyls continued to diversify. |
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Most perissodactyl lineages went extinct in the late Eocene or Oligocene. |
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It is too large to represent a peccary and probably represents some other artiodactyl or a perissodactyl. |
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This appears to be the first record for Florida of cuterebrosis in a horse or other perissodactyl, and the first such record for a horse in North America. |
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Perissodactyl, any member of the order Perissodactyla, a group of herbivorous mammals characterized by the possession of either one or three hoofed toes on each hindfoot. |
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