Mesohippus texanus

No picture of Mesohippus texanus 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 texanus, 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 5.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 39.7 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40.2 Mya33.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Mesohippus texanus 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

10 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

2 formations

Chambers Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WHogeye Tuff — 31.50°N, 105.20°W

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The named rock units Mesohippus texanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesohippus texanus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Mesohippus texanus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mesohippus texanus, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Mesohippus texanus 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 texanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesohippus texanus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itMesohippus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McGrew 1971