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Do u know if horses was a live when dinosaurs was around?

April 26, 2017dinosaurs horses live Mathematics zoology

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Do u know if horses was a live when dinosaurs was around?

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<> There are no known horse fossils of that age. As it happens, there aren’t any known Mesozoic mammal fossils clearly belonging to any present day placental order. <> I suspect you misheard. Horses belong to a family called Equidae. The known fossil record of equids (meaning all members of the family) dates back to the Lower Eocene. That’s more recent than 55 million years ago. The extinction of the last non-birdy dinos appears to have occurred ten million years earlier. In short, there’s not the slightest known fossil evidence indicating horses were around during the Cretaceous age. Update <> That’s partly garbled. The radiation of extant placental mammal orders seems (according to the fossil record) to have occurred something like that, although molecular studies sugges