Hippocampus slovenicus

Hippocampus slovenicusis an extinct species of seahorse from the Middle Miocene of Europe, where it inhabited the Paratethys Sea. Fossil specimens were discovered in 2005 from the Serravallian-aged coprolite horizon of the Dol Formation of the Tunjice hills lagerstätte in Slovenia, along with the related Hippocampus sarmaticus.

Hippocampus slovenicus

Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
HippocampusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 1.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.8 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiocene13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13.3 Mya11.13 Mya

1 occurrence of Hippocampus slovenicus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1 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

1 formation

Dol — 46.24°N, 14.57°E

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

Hippocampus slovenicus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hippocampus slovenicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hippocampus slovenicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Hippocampus slovenicus

Credit
Apokryltaros
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hippocampus slovenicus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itHippocampus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Žalohar et al. 2009