Equus caballus

Equus caballus

Srdjan Živulovič · Attribution · via Wikidata/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
Also called
horsePBDB
Sits inside
EquusPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Equus
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Equus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 96 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 96 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 88 of 96 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 6 of 96 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 16 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 45 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Equus caballus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

96 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

11 formations

Lujan — 36.78°S, 59.87°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WLujan — 38.75°S, 60.60°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.93°N, 1.30°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ESalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°W'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°ENuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNorwich Crag — 52.53°N, 1.59°ETarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WTezanos Pinto — 31.41°S, 62.14°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WMiramar — 37.87°S, 57.51°W

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The named rock units Equus caballus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Equus caballus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Equus caballus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

713 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Equus caballus, 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

61 references

Each of the 96 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. 49 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 Equus caballus

Credit
Srdjan Živulovič
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Equus caballus · L-NS:MAMM:NS293

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEquus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758