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Could a tetrapod Pegasus exist?

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Pegasuses in most works of media are often depicted as hexapods with four legs and two wings:

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The only problem is (from what I understand) no vertebrates on earth are hexapods, so I've decided to take a sort of wyvern approach and make them tetrapods! Now some characteristics of these "Pegasuses" include:

  • appearance like a cross between a Przewalski's and a white Icelandic horse
  • 25% smaller than an Icelandic horse and are a bit more slender
  • quadrupedal (similar to pterosaurs)
  • mostly solitary
  • very downy fur
  • capable of flight
  • herbivorous
  • monogamous (similar to kiwis or gibbons)
  • capable of being ridden but can't fly while doing so (optional)

Given these characteristics, what species could they have evolved from, and what evolutionary pressures would lead to them?

NOTE: magic does not exist in my story

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