Dinohippus mexicanus

Dinohippus mexicanus

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC · via iDigBio. 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
DinohippusPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Dinohippus
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Equinae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 633 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 36 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 42 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.9–9.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–8.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.0–7.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.333 Mya – 4.7 Mya12.1 Mya900 ka

42 occurrences of Dinohippus mexicanus on record. 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

42 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

6 formations

Rancho Viejo Beds — 21.08°N, 100.67°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.20°N, 100.70°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.81°N, 81.91°WBone Valley — 27.90°N, 81.80°WJuchipila — 21.71°N, 102.96°WCurré — 8.86°N, 83.08°WSan Jose — 20.14°N, 104.08°W

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The named rock units Dinohippus mexicanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

190 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Dinohippus mexicanus, 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

19 references

Each of the 42 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. 7 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 Dinohippus mexicanus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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What may have been alongside itDinohippus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lance 1950)