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Emy Moss 🐸 | Paleoartist | Concept artist @ Frontier | She/Her linktr.ee/Emychu

In the card are featured Merychippus (Ruminant-Horse), Eohippus (Dawn-Horse) Mesohippus (Middle-Horse) "Merychippus! and a happy new year!" The earliest common ancestor of the modern horse is the unsuspecting, five-toed Eohippus, which lived in the early Eocene about 52 mya.* then, 40 mya in the early Oligocene, the now only three-toed Mesohippus grazed on fruits and leaves in the ancient North-American forest. And finally, on Christmas day 15 mya in the Miocene, a very merry and chipper Merychippus galloped along the plains - spreading holiday cheer!** * mya - million years ago **at this point, Santa has not evolved yet