Equus neogeus – tooth

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2021-10-19
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This is a 3D laser scan of a molar tooth of *Equus neogeus*. The tooth was collected on 10th October 1833 by Charles Darwin from Paraná city, Argentina, and is between 29,000 and 14,000 years old. It is part of the Earth Sciences collection at the Natural History Museum, London. This has been scanned as part of the Museum’s Darwin Fossil Mammals digitisation project. Find out more at www.nhm.ac.uk/darwinsfossils. 85mm x 36mm x 31mm. [What is *Equus*? ](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/digital-collections/digital-collections-programme/darwins-south-american-horse-puzzle.html) Specimen number NHMUK PV M 16557 Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0086786) and specimen record (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/d99da87a-a531-4333-b244-2c348fa2ec39) on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.

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