Mesohippus propinquus
No picture of Mesohippus propinquus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mesohippus propinquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesohippusPBDB
- 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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mesohippus propinquus 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Mesohippus propinquus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesohippus propinquus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mesohippus propinquus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
158 taxa- Ankylodon3 sites
- Brontotheriidae3 sites
- Douglassciurus jeffersoni3 sites
- Ectypodus lovei3 sites
- Herpetotherium valens3 sites
- Mesohippus westoni3 sites
- Palaeolagus temnodon3 sites
- Prosciurus vetustus3 sites
- Stibarus montanus3 sites
- Agriochoerus2 sites
- Apternodus2 sites
- Ardynomys saskatchewaensis2 sites
- Aulolithomys bounites2 sites
- Calamagras weigeli2 sites
- Centetodon magnus2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Copedelphys titanelix2 sites
- Cylindrodon collinus2 sites
- Daphoenus2 sites
- Domnina2 sites
- Eomyidae2 sites
- Eutypomys parvus2 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax2 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesohippus propinquus, 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
2 referencesEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesohippus propinquus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mesohippus propinquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesohippus propinquus 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 itMesohippus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lambe 1905