General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . +*r^ •^?N^-. ]. MAMMALS OF THE LOWER PLIOCENE PI RIOI) l\ NORTHERN NEBRASKA. During this period short-limbed rhinoceroses lived with ancient camels and single-toed horses of small size. Murals bv Charles R. Knight rhc scries of skeletons in the last alcove onthe left showing the evolution of the display presents the story from thelittle Eocene mammal, Eohippus, throughintermediate stages to the Pleistocene andmodern horses, Equiis. (See Guide LeafletNo. ^6, Evolution of the Horse.) Asshown bv ske
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . +*r^ •^?N^-. ]. MAMMALS OF THE LOWER PLIOCENE PI RIOI) l\ NORTHERN NEBRASKA. During this period short-limbed rhinoceroses lived with ancient camels and single-toed horses of small size. Murals bv Charles R. Knight rhc scries of skeletons in the last alcove onthe left showing the evolution of the display presents the story from thelittle Eocene mammal, Eohippus, throughintermediate stages to the Pleistocene andmodern horses, Equiis. (See Guide LeafletNo. ^6, Evolution of the Horse.) Asshown bv skeletons of horse and man inanother hall, the single toe of the horse cor-responds to the middle finger or roe of man,and the same correspondence is seen in eachof the other leg and arm hones. In the modernhorse, all hut the middle finger and roe havedisappeared or have been reduced to splinthones, hut the remote ancestor of the horsehad five toes. THE HORSE UNDERDOMESTICATION (Index Plan, p. iy. Fourth Floor, Hall 2a)This hall is devoted to exhibits illustrating the great modifications that ma
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