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This permit application is for conducting palaeohistological analyses on the early Pliocene three-toed horse Eurygnathohippus hooijeri from Langebaanweg, West Coast Fossil Park National Heritage Site. Eleven bones and teeth will be histologically analysed to estimate key life history traits of the species, including their age at maturity, their growth rate, their age at death and/or their age at weaning. Because life history traits are highly influenced by ecological conditions - mainly predation pressure and resource availability -, the life history data obtained for both fossil equids will be used to reconstruct the ecological context in which African fossil equids evolved.

PQL-020553
Femur of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-009973
Femur of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-042484
Metacarpus of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-012089
Metacarpus of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-021827
Metatarsus of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-060788
Metatarsus of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-000949
Tooth of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-001465
Tooth of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-022547
Tooth of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-49740
Tooth of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg

PQL-000952
Tooth of Eurygnathohippus hooijeri
Langebaanweg