Epihippus gracilis

Epihippus gracilis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 37 of 37 occurrencesEocene48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.6 Mya37.2 Mya

37 occurrences of Epihippus gracilis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

37 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

12 formations

Uinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.17°N, 109.93°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.70°WTepee Trail — 43.70°N, 108.70°WTepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 108.20°WColmena Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.18°N, 108.40°WWiggins — 43.70°N, 108.70°WDell Beds — 45.00°N, 112.80°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WClarno — 44.93°N, 120.42°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WKishenehn — 48.30°N, 113.61°W

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The named rock units Epihippus gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Epihippus gracilis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Epihippus gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Epihippus gracilis, 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

15 references

Each of the 37 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. 2 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 content3

Picture of Epihippus gracilis

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CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Epihippus gracilis · fmnh:pm:55311

3D model

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

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What may have been alongside itEpihippus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1871)