Cheek tooth morphology and ancient mitochondrial DNA of late Pleistocene horses from the western interior of North America: Implications for the taxonomy of North American Late Pleistocene Equus

• Christina I. Barrón-Ortiz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christina.barron-ortiz@gov.ab.ca

  Affiliations Department of Quaternary Palaeontology, Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0732-875X

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• Antonia T. Rodrigues,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ancient DNA Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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• Jessica M. Theodor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Brian P. Kooyman,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Dongya Y. Yang,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ancient DNA Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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• Camilla F. Speller

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kindom

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