page_title: Equus scotti
section_title: Evolution
hierarchical_section_title: Equus scotti / Evolution
caption_attribution_description: Life restoration of Equus scotti from W.B. Scott's "A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere". New York: The Macmillan Company.
context_page_description: Equus scotti is an extinct species of Equus, the genus that includes the horse.
context_section_description: E. scotti was native to North America and likely evolved from earlier, more zebra-like North American equids early in the Pleistocene epoch. The species may have crossed from North America to Eurasia over the Bering land bridge during the Pleistocene.  The species died out at the end of the last ice age in the large-scale Pleistocene extinction of megafauna.
  It was among the last of the native horse species in the Americas until the reintroduction of the horse approximately 10,000 years later, when conquistadors brought modern horses to North and South America around the 16th century.
caption: Restoration
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