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Back to Middle Park Fossils from the USGS-Denver Collections: Vertebrates

photo of a leaf-eating Anchitherium skull and the grazing, grass-eating Merychippus skull showing the difference in teeth

Dental adaptation to the dusty grasslands was recorded in the fossil record of Middle Park. Merichippus was the first "Modern" horse.

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