The Small Equids (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) of the Pleistocen of Binagady (Azerbaijan) and Qazvin (Iran): E. hemionus binagadensis nov. subsp. and E. Hydruntinus
Résumé
Most of the remains of the small pleistocene equid of Binagady usually considered as an E. hydruntinus may be referred to a new subspecies, E. hemionus binagadensis. A few teeth and bones really resemble E. hydruntinus. In the Holocene of the plain of Qazvin, beside numerous remains of an average Hemione, there are several first phalanges similar to those of E. hemionus binagadensis and several teeth similar to those of E. hydruntinus. We decided to consider them as representative of separate taxa. If however there are just variations of E. Hemionus, our insight of E. hydruntinus has to be modified in one or two years: either E. hydruntinus is a Hemione (not an Ass, nor a king of E. stenonis or Zebra). or the "specific" characters of E. hydruntinus results of a parallel evolution.