Equus santaeelenae

Ghedoghedo · 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.
7 occurrences of Equus santaeelenae 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
7 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.
Equus santaeelenae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Equus santaeelenae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Eremotherium laurillardi2 sites
- Odocoileus salinae2 sites
- Smilodon populator2 sites
- Testudines2 sites
- Accipitridae1 site
- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Anas bahamensis1 site
- Anura1 site
- Aramides cajaneus1 site
- Aramus guarauna1 site
- Ardeidae1 site
- Arundinicola leucocephala1 site
- Asio stygius1 site
- Athene cunicularia1 site
- Bubo1 site
- Burhinus1 site
- Buteo1 site
- Buteogallus1 site
- Buteogallus aequinoctialis1 site
- Buteogallus meridionalis1 site
- Cairina moschata1 site
- Calidris1 site
- Calidris canutus1 site
- Calidris fuscicollis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Equus santaeelenae, 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
5 references- A systematic reassessment and paleogeographic review of fossil Xenarthra from Peru3
- Tanque Loma, a new late-Pleistocene megafaunal tar seep locality from southwest Ecuador1
- Nuevo registro de Equus (Amerhippus) santaeelenae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) del pozo de asfalto de Inciarte (Pleistoceno Superior), estado Zulia, Venezuela1
- A new species of Megatherium (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the Pleistocene of Sacaco and Tres Ventanas, Peru1
- A late pleistocene fauna from the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador1
Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Equus santaeelenae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Equus (Amerhippus) santaeelenae · mnhn:f:lar-47
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. Spillmann 1938