Fossil teeth of browsing horse found in Panama Canal earthworks

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 05:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Rushing to salvage fossils from the Panama Canal earthworks, Aldo Rincon, palaeontology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, unearthed a set of fossil teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida in Gainesville, describes the fossil as Anchitherium clarencei, a three-toed browsing horse, in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Paleontology...

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