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Western horse
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Equus occidentalis.jpg
Skeleton from the La Brea tar pits
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E. occidentalis
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Equus occidentalis
Owen, 1863
La Brea horse
Skull

The Western horse (or Equus occidentalis) was a species of horse that inhabited North America during the Pleistocene. It is now extinct.

It was a stoutly built animal. It resembled the extinct quagga or the modern zebra, although it was not a close relative of either or these species.

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