🐴 For #FossilFriday the Eocene “dawn horse” Protorohippus venticolus (cast), housed at the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal, UT.
The original specimen—now in a private collection—is about 33cm (13 in) tall at the shoulder. It is one of two known specimens from the Fossil Butte Member at Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming.
I’ll be posting more about North American equids in the Midwest the next few months.
