Florida Museum of Natural History

Steve and Sue Hutchens with Equus skeleton An Equus skeleton, from the Leisey locality in Florida, was unveiled at the Florida Museum of Natural History's Paleofest96. Pictured with the skeleton are its creators, Steve and Sue Hutchins. This husband and wife team combine their talents in sculpture and wood craftsmanship with their enthusiasm for fossils and science to create such displays. Steve and Sue prepared the first articulated skeleton of Archaeohippus for the Florida Museum's Hall of Florida Fossils exhibit.


Answer for the previous page: The Equus fossil tooth is most similar to A) Zebras. Note the deep ectoflexid and the v-shaped linguaflexid. Both of these features are characteristic of zebras.

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