Museum and Collections

ALBERDI, M. T.; PRADO, J. L.

Fossil Horses of South America. Phylogeny, Systematics and Ecology

Springer Nature

Lugar: Cham; Año: 2017; p. 61 - 71

To understand the evolution and the diversity of fossil horses from South America, it is essential to visit large museum collections around the word. The origin of these collections goes back to the fifteenth century and its peak was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Many museums maintain collections of fossil horses, ranging from preserved whole skeleton to DNA libraries. These fossil collections make innumerable contributions to science and society and preserved the past biodiversity change, and traditional taxonomy and systematics. In this chapter we summarized the main horse collections.