Equus mauritanicus

Equus mauritanicus is an extinct species of equine that lived in North Africa during the Pleistocene. Auguste Pomel described it from remains at Tighenif, Algeria, typically assumed to be late Quaternary in age, and remains from across North Africa have been attributed to it. It has in the past been considered the same as the living plains zebra, but examination of several skulls shows it to apparently be a distinct zebra that does not represent any living species of African zebra. The taxon has been described as poorly defined and in need of further study, and other authors place its range at the end of the Early Pleistocene, around 1 million years ago.