Parahippus coloradensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParahippusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Equidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
4 occurrences of Parahippus coloradensis 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
4 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.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Parahippus coloradensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parahippus coloradensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parahippus coloradensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Hypohippus osborni2 sites
- Teleoceras medicornutum2 sites
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus2 sites
- Acritohippus isonesus1 site
- Aelurodon asthenostylus1 site
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Amphicyon frendens1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Archaeolagus macrocephalus1 site
- Balantiomys oregonensis1 site
- Blastomerycinae1 site
- Bouromeryx1 site
- Brachycrus1 site
- Calippus1 site
- Canidae1 site
- Cormohipparion sphenodus1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
- Cynelos1 site
- Cynelos sinapius1 site
- Desmathyus pinensis1 site
- Desmatippus texanus1 site
- Desmocyon thomsoni1 site
- Dromomeryx1 site
- Dromomeryx borealis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Parahippus coloradensis, 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
4 references- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
- A Miocene Mammalian Fauna From South-Eastern Oregon1
- Equidae of the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene of North America, iconographic type revision1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Parahippus coloradensis 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 Parahippus coloradensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parahippus coloradensis 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 itParahippus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gidley 1907