Pliohippus mirabilis
No picture of Pliohippus mirabilis 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 mirabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 least 870 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
9 occurrences of Pliohippus mirabilis 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
9 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
3 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Peace River Formation · Hawthorn Group2
- Pawnee Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Pliohippus mirabilis 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 mirabilis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pliohippus mirabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
158 taxa- Merycodus warreni6 sites
- Aelurodon ferox5 sites
- Procranioceras skinneri5 sites
- Protohippus perditus5 sites
- Ustatochoerus medius5 sites
- Eucastor tortus4 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius4 sites
- Teleoceras medicornutum4 sites
- Aphelops megalodus3 sites
- Calippus3 sites
- Calippus proplacidus3 sites
- Carpocyon compressus3 sites
- Cormohipparion quinni3 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis3 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis3 sites
- Glyptemys valentinensis3 sites
- Hypohippus osborni3 sites
- Monosaulax skinneri3 sites
- Mylagaulidae3 sites
- Parahippus cognatus3 sites
- Peraceras superciliosum3 sites
- Perognathus trojectioansrum3 sites
- Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus3 sites
- Trilophodon osborni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pliohippus mirabilis, 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
5 references- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska3
- Phylogenetic Interrelationships and Evolution of North American Late Equidae2
- Cormohipparion and Hipparion (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Late Neogene of Florida2
- Tertiary stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of fossil vertebrates from north-central Nebraska1
- Revision of the Miocene and Pliocene Equidae of North America1
Each of the 9 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 mirabilis 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 mirabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliohippus mirabilis 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. (Leidy 1858)