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Hyracotherium ( ; " hyrax-like beast "), also known as Eohippus or the dawn horse, is an extinct genus of very small ( about 60 cm in length ) perissodactyl ungulates that lived in the woodlands of the northern hemisphere, with species ranging throughout Asia, Europe, and North America during the early Tertiary Period and the early to mid Eocene Epoch, about 55 — 45 million years ago with the earliest fossil specimen found at the Tsagan Khushu Quarry 1 site, Mongolia averaging about 60 cm in length and weighing around 15 – 16 kg ( 36 lbs ).
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Hyracotherium and ;
Although they were descended from the earliest ancestral horse, Hyracotherium, the Propaleotheres and Paleotheres were not the ancestors of the modern horse ; their line died out around 34 million years ago, leaving no descendants.
Hyracotherium and known
They formerly were assigned to the genus Hyracotherium ( sometimes known as Eohippus ), but the type species of that genus now is regarded to be not a member of this family ( see Hyracotherium ).
The earliest known genus, Hyracotherium ( now reclassified as a palaeothere ), was a herbivore animal resembling a dog that lived in the early Cenozoic.
For example, it is sometimes claimed that the extinct Hyracotherium ( an ancient horse-like animal commonly known as an eohippus ) is pseudoextinct, rather than extinct, because several species of horse, including the zebra and the donkey, are extant today.
However, it is not known, and probably cannot be known, whether modern horses actually descend from members of the genus Hyracotherium, or whether they simply share a common ancestor.
Hyracotherium and Eohippus
The earlier published name Hyracotherium therefore had priority as the official name for the genus, with Eohippus becoming a junior synonym of that genus.
Most other species of Hyracotherium are still regarded as equids, but they have been placed in several other genera, such as Arenahippus, Minippus, Pliolophus, Protorohippus, Sifrhippus, Xenicohippus, and even Eohippus.
Hyracotherium and horse
The tapir may have evolved from the paleothere Hyracotherium ( once thought to be a primitive horse ).
It is proposed by some scientists that the Hyracotherium was not only ancestral to the horse, but to other perissodactyls such as rhinos and tapirs.
While the Hyracotherium was twice the size of a terrier, later horse genera like Propalaeotherium could indeed be terrier sized, down to 30 cm at the shoulder.
Hyracotherium and is
Hyracotherium is believed to have been a browsing herbivore that ate primarily soft leaves as well as some fruits and nuts and plant shoots .< ref name = SolSem >
In elementary level textbooks, Hyracotherium is commonly described as being " the size of a small Fox Terrier ", despite the Fox Terrier being about half the size of Hyracotherium.
It is believed to have evolved from palaeotheres such as Hyracotherium, as the earliest evidence for Orohippus appears about 2 million years after the first appearance of Hyracotherium.
Hyracotherium and extinct
In his formal description published by the Geological Society in 1841, Owen wrote " Without intending to imply that the present small extinct Pachyderm was more closely allied to the Hyrax than as being a member of the same order, and similar in size, I propose to call the new genus which it unquestionably indicates, Hyracotherium, with the specific name leporinum.
Hyracotherium and genus
" Referring to this resemblance to the hyrax, Owen proposed the name Hyracotherium for this new genus.
Hyracotherium and about
Hyracotherium averaged two feet ( 60-cm ) in length and eight to 14-inches ( 20-cm ) high at the shoulder and weighed about 50 pounds.
Mesohippus had longer legs than its predecessor Hyracotherium and stood about 60 cm
Hyracotherium and with
**** Genus † Hyracotherium ( possibly paraphyletic with some species belonging to the family † Palaeotheriidae )
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He was saved because he did not accept the mark of the beast ; he was forced to receive it because he was involuntarily put to sleep and then given it.
Johnston was puzzled by the okapi tracks the natives showed him ; while he had expected to be on the trail of some sort of forest-dwelling horse, the tracks were of some cloven-hoofed beast.
Still, in the midst of all the island's chaos, it should be noted that Ralph has a tendency to be polite and logical in the tensest of moments ; for example, when the children are obliged to investigate Castle Rock, Ralph takes the lead despite being afraid of " the beast ".
He states, from report, that " it is impossible to take this ferocious beast alive ; and that all its strength lies in its horn.
The myths refer to a beast with one horn that can only be tamed by a virgin ; subsequently, some writers translated this into an allegory for Christ's relationship with the Virgin Mary.
Animalistic guardian spirits of day and night wearing Han Chinese clothing | Chinese robes, Han Dynasty Chinese paintings | paintings on ceramic tile ; Michael Loewe writes that the Hybrid ( mythology ) | hybrid of man and beast in art and religious beliefs predated the Han and remained popular during the first half of Western Han and the Eastern Han.
Under their ears they have gills and a man's nose ; but the mouth is broader and the teeth are those of a beast.
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Her father, King Philip, known as " le Bel " ( the Fair ) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man ; contemporaries described him as " neither a man nor a beast, but a statue "; modern historians have noted that he " cultivated a reputation for Christian kingship and showed few weaknesses of the flesh ".
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Serpent elements figure among his offspring ; among his children by Echidna are: Cerberus ( a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail and a serpentine mane ); the serpent-tailed Chimaera ; the serpent-like chthonic water beast Lernaean Hydra ; and the hundred-headed serpentine dragon Ladon.
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Teyrnon watched his stables and saw a mysterious clawed beast coming to take the foal ; Teyrnon cut off the beast's arm and found the child outside the stable.
The denizens of Annwn are depicted as bizarre and hellish creatures ; these include a " wide-mawed " beast with a hundred heads and bearing a host beneath the root of its tongue and another under its neck, a hundred-clawed black-groined toad, and a " mottled ridged serpent, with a thousand souls, by their sins, tortured in the holds of its flesh ".
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However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.
As sun-god and god of light, Apollo was also known by the epithets Aegletes ( ; Αἰγλήτης, Aiglētēs, from αἴγλη, " light of the sun "), Helius ( ; Ἥλιος, Helios, literally " sun "), Phanaeus ( ; Φαναῖος, Phanaios, literally " giving or bringing light "), and Lyceus ( ; Λύκειος, Lukeios, from Proto-Greek * λύκη, " light ").
In association with his birthplace, Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos, Apollo was called Cynthius ( ; Κύνθιος, Kunthios, literally " Cynthian "), Cynthogenes ( ; Κύνθογενης, Kunthogenēs, literally " born of Cynthus "), and Delius ( ; Δήλιος, Delios, literally " Delian ").
Apollo was worshipped as Actiacus ( ; Ἄκτιακός, Aktiakos, literally " Actian "), Delphinius ( ; Δελφίνιος, Delphinios, literally " Delphic "), and Pythius ( ; Πύθιος, Puthios, from Πυθώ, Pūthō, the area around Delphi ), after Actium ( Ἄκτιον ) and Delphi ( Δελφοί ) respectively, two of his principal places of worship.
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