Pliohippus tehonensis
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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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
29 occurrences of Pliohippus tehonensis 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
29 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
6 formations
- MR Caliente Formation20
- Caliente Formation3
- NS Caliente Formation2
- Dove Spring Formation2
- Punchbowl Formation1
- "Santa Margarita" Formation1
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The named rock units Pliohippus tehonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pliohippus tehonensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pliohippus tehonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) cerroensis20 sites
- Leporidae18 sites
- Camelidae17 sites
- Gomphotherium10 sites
- Protospermophilus quatalensis8 sites
- Caninae5 sites
- Borophaginae3 sites
- Dinohippus leardi3 sites
- Hipparion tehonense3 sites
- Perognathus furlongi3 sites
- Ramoceros3 sites
- Alluvisorex chasseae2 sites
- Ammospermophilus fossilis2 sites
- Barbourofelis whitfordi2 sites
- Borophagus littoralis2 sites
- Copemys dentalis2 sites
- Epicyon haydeni2 sites
- Hipparion forcei2 sites
- Leptocyon vafer2 sites
- Perognathus minutus2 sites
- Petauristodon jamesi2 sites
- Petauristodon mathewsi2 sites
- Plioceros2 sites
- Pliohippus tantalus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Pliohippus tehonensis, 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- Paleontology and nonmarine stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley badlands, California; Part 1, Geology, faunal interpretations, and systematic descriptions of Chiroptera, Insectivora, and Rodentia24
- Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California2
- Stratigraphy of the Punchbowl Formation, Cajon Valley, southern California1
- Continental vertebrates and their stratigraphic correlation with marine mollusks, eastern Caliente Range, California1
- Nonmarine Lower Pliocene Sediments in California. A Geochronologic-Stratigraphic Classification1
Each of the 29 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
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No picture of Pliohippus tehonensis 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 tehonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliohippus tehonensis 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. (Merriam 1915)