Equus ovodovi

North and East Asia

Asiatic wild ass,^[1] from which it can be distinguished based on its larger and more robust limb bones.^[2]

Northern China, with the youngest remains dating to around 3500 years ago (~1500 BC) in Northern China. Genetic evidence suggests that it more closely related to zebras and asses than to horses. Initial genetic analysis based on the mitochondrial DNA found the exact relationship to be uncertain, but analysis of the full nuclear genome suggests that zebras and asses are more closely related to each other than either are to E. ovodovi, though there had been gene flow into the Equus ovodovi lineage from both the last common ancesor of zebras and asses and the last common ancestor of zebras, as well as gene flow from the Equus ovodovi lineage into the last common ancestor of asses.^[6]