No.1202111
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i asked chatgpt what the common ancestors of ponies and humans were and ...closest known common ancestor to humans and ponies: ambolestes. while not the common ancestor, it existed 20-40 million years before the split 90-100 million years ago. there are no complete skeletons from the 90-100 million year range
https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2018/06/ambolestes.htmlukhaatherium, 84-72 million years ago, split off from an earlier common ancestor with ambolestes so is kind-of like a somewhat distant cousin of the common ancestor of humans & ponies
No.1202115
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If you go back far enough, we were all fish.
No.1202118
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That's the worst looking pony.
No.1202122
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>>1202118well it is still pretty far away from the common ancestor. looks like it's in therian mammals so there is still placental mammals and then finally boreoeutheria, which is the group the common ancestor of ponies and humans would be in. there isn't as good of a skeleton for those other groups....
No.1202123
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>>1202122...just after the split, 65-70 million years ago, hoof-side
No.1202124
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65 million years ago, after the split from the common pony and human ancestor, one of the earliest-known primate relatives (in euarchontoglires)
No.1202127
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>>1202124this guy is a bit closer to the common ancestor (in boreoeutharians)
(the fossil is incomplete, though, so they had to guess a bit -- head is most accurate)
