Pliohippus fossulatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliohippusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Pliohippus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equinae
- 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 12.5 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pliohippus fossulatus 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 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Pliohippus fossulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pliohippus fossulatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pliohippus fossulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Teleoceras major4 sites
- Aelurodon taxoides3 sites
- Calippus martini3 sites
- Calippus regulus3 sites
- Pseudhipparion hessei3 sites
- Synthetoceras tricornatus3 sites
- Barbourofelis whitfordi2 sites
- Calippus placidus2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Cynarctus crucidens2 sites
- Epicyon saevus2 sites
- Hippotherium2 sites
- Hypohippus affinis2 sites
- Paratomarctus euthos2 sites
- Protohippus supremus2 sites
- Tayassuinae2 sites
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Carpocyon robustus1 site
- Cormohipparion fricki1 site
- Cormohipparion skinneri1 site
- Cranioceras teres1 site
- Epicyon haydeni1 site
- Hipparion tehonense1 site
- Hipparionini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pliohippus fossulatus, 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- A New Mammalian Local Fauna from the Lower Pliocene of Texas2
- Phylogenetic Interrelationships and Evolution of North American Late Equidae1
- A cranium of Pliohippus fossulatus from the Clarendon lower Pliocene fauna of Texas1
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 Pliohippus fossulatus 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 Pliohippus fossulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliohippus fossulatus 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 itPliohippus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1893)