Talk:Hyracotherium
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[edit] Page move from Eohippus to Hyracotherium
Should this page be moved to Hyracotherium? That name seems to be the one most in use.Fornadan 20:24, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, and Eohippus should redirect to it as a synonym. When Owen found the first fossils he did not have a full specimen, didn't realise what he had, and called it "mole beast". When a full specimen was discovered later it was given the more fitting name Eohippus. It wasn't realised until even later that the two finds were the same species. In cases like this the first published name has priority as the official name. Deadlock 02:48, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Ribs
- An interesting coincidence is that the Hyracotherium has 18 pairs of ribs, while Orohippus has only 15, and Pliohippus has 19, and Equus has 18 pairs of ribs, making this impossible to be an ancestor of the horse
I don't know if this makes it impossible to have been an ancestor. Anyway, it needs to be phrased better and have a ref. --DanielCD 20:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- How many ribs it has is irrelevant, as the change is due to the requirements of the environment and period in which it lived. If it has LESS ribs in a later phylogenetic branch, then it would just mean that one evolutionary mechanism dictated the change in it's structure. Let's not make quantum leaps when it comes to simple science. James.Spudeman 20:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Dog Sized"
To continue what Gould said, can we ever describe anything as "dog-sized" anyways? What breed of dog? Chihuahua or Great Dane? Eran of Arcadia 19:43, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- I'm leaning towards Chihuahua, or a Yorkshire terrier.--Mr Fink 03:16, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
