Turin Quagga

Catalogue number: 295?

Sex: female

Locality: -

Date of acquisition: 1827

History of mount: original mount with several old repairs especially on head and lumbar region

Measurements:

head - body	2,45 m
tail	0,47 m
ear	0,17 m
hindfoot	0,49 m
shoulder height	1,19 m

State of preservation: fair, rather dirty, with rusty patches on legs

Further material of same individual: skull (No 295) in collection

References: Camerano (1902, 1908); Renshaw (1904); Ridgeway (1909); Hiltzheimer (1912)

 

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