Miohippus anceps

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiohippusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Miohippus anceps on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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.
Miohippus anceps and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Miohippus anceps and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Agnotocastor montanus1 site
- Blastomeryx gemmifer1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Cynodesmus thooides1 site
- Desmatochoerus hatcheri1 site
- Desmatochoerus megalodon1 site
- Diceratherium annectens1 site
- Eumys brachyodus1 site
- Hypertragulus calcaratus1 site
- Leptauchenia decora1 site
- Megalagus dawsoni1 site
- Mesoreodon chelonyx1 site
- Miohippus annectens1 site
- Miohippus equiceps1 site
- Niglarodon koerneri1 site
- Palaeolagus hypsodus1 site
- Pronodens silberlingi1 site
- Rhinocerotidae1 site
- Sespia heterodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Miohippus anceps, 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 referenceEach 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 Miohippus anceps
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Miohippus anceps 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMiohippus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1874)