''Equus namadicus'' is a prehistoric

equid Equidae (commonly known as the horse family) is the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of Wild horse, horses and related animals, including Asinus, asses, zebra, zebras, and many extinct species known only from fossils. The fa ...

, known from remains dating to the

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and

Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division ...

from across the

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, with its last dated records being approximately 29–14,000 years ago. It is considered a "stenonine horse", related to species like the European '' Equus stenonis'', meaning that it is probably more closely related to zebras and asses than true horses. It is relatively large in size. It is very similar to the earlier '' Equus sivalensis,'' also from the Indian subcontinent, from which it only differs in size and in subtle aspects of dental anatomy, and it has sometimes been suggested to be a synonym of it.

References

*B.J. MacFadden, ''Fossil Horses'', 1992 *J. Curke, ''A Roman Frontier Post and its People, The Fort of Newstead in the Parish of Melrose'', Glasgow 1911 (appendix on animal remain

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