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Here we have a detialed look at centaurs and their nearest relatives. Many of these are highly intelligent and tool-using to some degree or another. Only centaurs have so-far achieved what we might consider civilization.Pankelpiemorphia: discussed in detail here
Centaurs: Most intelligent species on the planet with some of the most complex social structures. They have an upright humanoid body, and short face with forward-facing eyes, and single-toed hooves. They have several distinctive culture-groups.
Zebracentaurs: Closely related to Centaurs, they have striking stripped coloration.
Onocentaurs: Closely related to centaurs and zebracentaurs, they are smaller, with longer faces and larger ears.
Mesocentaurs: Close evolutionary relatives of centaurs, they have long, equine faces and three-toed hooves.
Bucentaurs: Robust, bovine two-horned centauroids. They have two-toed cloven hooves.
Anggitays: Gracile, single-horned centauroids. They are closely related to bucentaurs.
Tragocentaur: Smaller, two-horned centauroids. They are closely related to bucentaurs and anggitays.
Alseids: Gracile antlered centauroids. They are closely related to the horned centauroids.
Prongcentaurs: Medium, pronghorned centauroids. They are related to the horned and antlered centauroids.
Mesoelaphocentaurs: Extinct, small, cloven-hoofed hornless centaturoids.
Eoelaphocentaurs: Extinct centauroids related to cloven-hoofed centauroids with four-toed hooves.
Loxoda: Large, tusked, simian centauroids. They resemble the torso of a gorilla on top of an elephant or rhinoceros. They have thick gray leathery skin.
Mesoloxoda: Extinct, large, robust centauroids. Closely related to loxoda.
Eoloxoda: Extinct centauroids, with pillar-like toed feet.
Eocentaurs: Extinct group of small ancestral centauroids.
Chaltotheritaurs: Extinct centauroids with long clawed forelimbs.
Pseudocentaurs: Exitnct, close relatives of chaltotheritaurs.
Oceanic Hippocampi: Open-ocean hippocampi, with paddle-like forelimbs.
Seal-Mother: Large shore-dwelling, red-maned hippocampi.
Marine Hippocampi: Fully aquatic hippocampi with fin-like forelimbs.
Capricorns: Gracile two-horned hippocampi.
Taurocapi: Robust two-horned hippocampi. They are closely related to capricrorns.
Quinotaurs: Large, five-horned hippocampi. Known for mating on land, and related to taurocampi and capricorns
Trinotaurs: Extinct three-horned hippocampi, closely related to living horned hippocampi.
Monotaurs: Extinct, one-horned hippocampi, related to other horned hippocampi.
Shore Hippocampi: Basal, shore-dwelling hippocampi, with well-developed forelimbs.
Dire Equines: Large, six-limbed equine herbivores.
Equislepnirs: Medium-sized, six-limbed equine herbivores.
Mesoslepniers: Extinct, smaller relatives of dire equines and equislepnirs.
Deinos: Large, six-legged, hoofed apex predators. A species of "diomedean mare".
Lampon: Nocturnal, bioluminescent predators, closely related to denios'.
Xanthos: Medium-sized pursuit predators, closely related to denios' and lampons.
Podagros: Lithe, gracile running predators, related to the other diomedean mares.
Equidiomedea: Basile, and prototypical diomedean mares.
Mesodiomedea: Extinct, close relatives of modern diomedean mares.
Great Equitharcae: Extinct, very large, hoofed predator. They belong to a similar to, but genetically and anatomically distinct group of extinct predators from the diomedean mares. They had shorter necks, heavier jaws and a wider gait.
Saber-Toothed Equitharcae: Extinct, large predator with a pair of extend "saber" canines. Closely related to the great equitharcae.
Cave Equitharcae: Extinct, robust, cave-dwelling ambush predator.
Common Equitharcae: Extinct, medium-sized prototypical equitharcae.
Lesser Equitharcae: Extinct, small basal equitharcae.
Protoequitharcae: Extinct close relatives of equitharcae.
Eodiomedea: Extinct, ancestral group to six-legged hoofed carnivores.
Eoslepnirs: Extinct, small hoofed six-legged omnivores. Reduced, hoofed digits on forelimbs. Good runners.
Protoslepnirs: Extinct, loss of grasping functionality in forelimbs.
Protocentaurs: Extinct, possesed well-developed grasping forelimbs and had hoof-like nails covering the digits of the middle and hind limbs.
Quasicentaurs: Extinct, related group to modern placental species. Well-developed grasping forelimbs, lacked hoof-like coverings digits of middle and hind limbs.
Hexirodentia: Extinct, ancestral group to modern placental species. Lacked well-developed grasping forelimbs. Were burrowing.
Included with the centaur relatives are hippocampi, who are not close relatives of kelpi, and six-limbed hooved species, both herbivorous and carnivorous. Even though the Mares of Diomedeas were just supposed to be meat-eating horses, and not canonically multi-limbed, I decided to fit them in here, as well as properly horse-like slepnirs having only six limbs. In both cases they actually represent a loss of grasping functionality int he forelimbs.
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Sudden thought: WoW's magnataurs would make a good model for a woolly loxoda.
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That is certainty possible. Though I will have to actually work out Medea's geography for that one.
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What exactly is the structure of Diomedimorpha's hooves? Myself, I'm imagining a large curved claw in the place of a blunt hoof, ideal for gripping the ground, kicking prey to death, and for dueling for mates.
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Honestly, Diomedimorpha was one of the last additions to this group so is actually the least fleshed-out in my head. As far as use as a weapon in combat or hunting, I see the hooves being a bludgeoning weapon if anything. They aren't as reliant on their jaws as the Equitharcae, but they're still probably closer to canines than anything, so their teeth and jaws are still their primary weapons. They also typically focus on prey smaller to themselves and often do the whole "shake to death" thing you see dogs do. Thus needing a more flexible neck and over-all build.
The Diomedimorpha are more carnivores with hooves and the Equitharcae are more ungulates with sharp teeth if that helps. The extinct equitharcae were very tough and impressive, but also about as flexible as a board.
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Alright.
Man, they must've been something - horses are already fucking scary enough, but with saber teeth and a mouthful of teeth? That's both terrifying and amazing.
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Technically "hoofed carnivores" was a thing on prehistoric Earth too.
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