What is Western horse?
{{Taxobox | colour = lightblue | fossil_range= Pleistocene | image = Equus occidentalis.jpg | image_width = | image_caption = Skeleton from the [[La Brea tar pits]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Perissodactyla]] | familia = [[Equidae]] | genus = ''[[Equus (genus)|Equus]]'' | species = [[Extinction|†]]'''''E. occidentalis''''' | binomial = †''Equus occidentalis'' | binomial_authority = Owen, 1863 }} [[File:La Brea horse.jpg|thumb|right|Skull]] The '''Western horse''' (or '''''Equus occidentalis''''') was a [[species]] of [[horse]] that inhabited [[North America]] during the [[Pleistocene]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Klide, A. M.|title=Overriding vertebral spinous processes in the extinct horse, ''Equus occidentalis''|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_american-journal-of-veterinary-research_1989-04_50_4/page/592|year=1989|journal=American Journal of Veterinary Research|volume=50|issue=4|pages=592–593|pmid=2712429}}</ref> It is now extinct. It was a stoutly built animal. It resembled the extinct [[quagga]] or the modern [[zebra]], although it was not a close relative of either or these species. == References == {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Horses]]