EN-US>e=宋体>During the 2009 fieldwork season, the authors team discovered several equid fossils near Menshi(Moincêr,e="mso-spacerun: yes"> or Menci)Town, Ngari, Tibet, adjacent to the espace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />e w:st="on">eName w:st="on">NeogeneeName> eName w:st="on">ZandaeName> eType w:st="on">BasineType>e> which yielded e="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体">Palaeotragus microdon ande="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体"> Hipparion (e="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体">Plesiohipparion)e="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体"> zandaense.e="mso-spacerun: yes"> New materials include a proximal portion of left third metatarsal (V18033) and a well preserved right second phalanx (V18034), which were collected from field sites MS0901 (31°etcnv w:st="on" UnitName="’" SourceValue="12" HasSpace="False" Negative="False" NumberType="1" TCSC="0">12’etcnv>41.6″N, 80°etcnv w:st="on" UnitName="’" SourceValue="42" HasSpace="False" Negative="False" NumberType="1" TCSC="0">42’etcnv>42.5″E) south of national highway G219 and MS0902 (31°etcnv w:st="on" UnitName="’" SourceValue="13" HasSpace="False" Negative="False" NumberType="1" TCSC="0">13’etcnv>26.2″N, 80°etcnv w:st="on" UnitName="’" SourceValue="44" HasSpace="False" Negative="False" NumberType="1" TCSC="0">44’etcnv>46.6″E) north of G219, respectively.e="mso-spacerun: yes"> In morphology, the attribution possibility to e="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体">Hipparion and hemionus is excluded based on the fact that third metatarsal has a wide and thick articular facet for the Os tarsale tertium.e="mso-spacerun: yes"> Compared with those of 7 comparable species of e="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体">Equus with known limb bone material in egion w:st="on">e w:st="on">Chinae>egion>, the Menshi sample is closest to that of e="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体">E.przewalskii both in size and morphology.e="mso-spacerun: yes"> espace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
