Equus francisci

Eric Scott · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Equus francisci on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Equus francisci has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Equus francisci and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Equus francisci and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Camelops hesternus3 sites
- Equus conversidens3 sites
- Mammuthus columbi3 sites
- Camelops2 sites
- Canis latrans2 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis2 sites
- Holmesina septentrionalis2 sites
- Mammut americanum2 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus2 sites
- Platygonus compressus2 sites
- Procyon lotor2 sites
- Smilodon fatalis2 sites
- Tetrameryx shuleri2 sites
- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Alligator mississippiensis1 site
- Amnicola1 site
- Anura1 site
- Aplexia hypnorum1 site
- Aplodinotus grunniens1 site
- Aquila chrysaetos1 site
- Arctodus pristinus1 site
- Arctodus simus1 site
- Atractosteus spatula1 site
- Bison1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Equus francisci, 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
4 references- Paleoecology (C13 and O18 stable isotopes analysis) of a mammalian assemblage from the Late Pleistocene of Hidalgo, central Mexico and implications for a better understanding of environmental conditions in temperate North America (18 degrees - 36 degrees N Lat.)1
- Late Cenozoic fossil mammals from the Chapala rift basin, Jalisco, Mexico1
- Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) mammals from fissure deposits in the Jurassic Todilto Formation, White Mesa mine, Sandoval County, north-central New Mexico1
- The Moore Pit local fauna; Pleistocene of Texas1
Each of the 4 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. 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 content1

Picture of Equus francisci
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Eric Scott
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Equus francisci was found in Sketchfab.
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 itEquus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hay 1915)