Cormohipparion

Cormohipparion (Greek: "noble", "pony" is an extinct genus of horse belonging to the tribe Hipparionini that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Late Miocene to Pliocene. They grew up to 3 feet long.

Cormohipparion

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HipparioniniPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Equinae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 143 occurrencesMiocene — about 131 of 143 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 143 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 143 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 12 occurrences10.0–9.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.9–6.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.2–5.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.4–4.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.7–900 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16.3 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya900 ka

143 occurrences of Cormohipparion on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

143 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

30 formations

Ash Hollow — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 100.70°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.50°N, 82.50°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WAlachua — 29.80°N, 82.10°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WBone Valley — 27.90°N, 81.80°WBone Valley — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBone Valley — 27.50°N, 82.50°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WGoliad — 28.53°N, 97.74°WGoliad — 28.70°N, 97.39°WFleming — 30.72°N, 95.28°WFleming — 31.10°N, 93.10°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 31.05°N, 93.21°WGracias — 14.60°N, 88.50°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°WStatenville — 30.40°N, 83.00°WPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WChalk Hills — 42.77°N, 115.92°WChalk Hills — 42.73°N, 115.87°WGoodnight Beds — 35.00°N, 101.30°WPawnee Creek Beds — 40.80°N, 103.10°WLaverne — 36.80°N, 100.50°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WSanta Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.04°WNagrota — 32.70°N, 74.85°EPinecrest — 27.35°N, 82.37°WEl Camarón — 16.55°N, 96.03°WOgallala — 35.83°N, 99.98°WFort Randall — 43.49°N, 99.27°Wreferred Chamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°W

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The named rock units Cormohipparion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cormohipparion and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cormohipparion and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,046 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Cormohipparion, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

43 references

Each of the 143 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 31 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Cormohipparion

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Cormohipparion occidentale · unsm:128869-2109-90

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHipparionini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Skinner and MacFadden 1977