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Orce Man
The Orce Man, Orce Donkey, or Venta Micena fossil is a fossil cranium fragment that was historically considered an infantile early Europe, European member of ''Homo''. However, later research suggested that the remains actually belonged to the equine species ''Equus altidens''. History The specimen was discovered by Josep Gibert in 1982-1983 at Venta Micena, one of several paleo-archaeological sites in the municipality of Orce, province of Granada, Granada, Spain. It was labelled hominid 2 or VM-0 after being freed from sediment by Gibert, Jordi Agustí, and Salvador Moyà-Solà. This team was young and established experts in various fields except paleoanthropology, and took the fragment to Province of Barcelona, Barcelona, which funded the Sabadell Institute of Paleontology and thus their research. They enlisted the Paleontology, paleontologists Rafael Adrover, Pierre Mein, and Peter Andrews for Taxonomy, taxonomic identification, and they agreed that the specimen was human. ...
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Equus Altidens
''Equus altidens'' is an extinct species of equine native to western Eurasia including Europe during the Early Pleistocene to early Middle Pleistocene. Taxonomy ''Equus altidens'' was first described in 1915 from remains at the early Middle Pleistocene Sussenborn locality in Germany. Most recent authors consider the species ''Equus marxi'' also known from Sussenborn to be a junior synonym of ''E. altidens''. The majority of authors have suggested the species is related to other "stenonine" equines known from Early Pleistocene of Europe such as ''Equus stenonis,'' which are thought to be more closely related to living zebras and asses than to true horses. Some authors have suggested a closer relationship to asses than to zebras for ''E. altidens''. Some authors have placed the species in the subgenus ''Sussemionus,'' or place it with other "stenonines" in the separate genus ''Allohippus.'' " Orce Man", a supposed archaic human fossil from the Early Pleistocene of Spain, was later d ...
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