Scaphohippus

Scaphohippus is an extinct Miocene genus of equine, with two known species, known from fossils found in California, New Mexico, Montana, and Nebraska.

Scaphohippus

Ted Fremd · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EquinaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Equinae
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.

Oligocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesMiocene — about 48 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 48 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

48 occurrences of Scaphohippus 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

48 occurrences

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

10 formations

Barstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.08°WBopesta — 35.19°N, 118.26°WBopesta — 35.18°N, 118.24°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WPunchbowl — 34.80°N, 117.00°WPunchbowl — 32.97°N, 116.68°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WCajon Valley — 34.33°N, 117.43°WMadison Valley — 45.93°N, 111.29°WSixmile Creek — 46.00°N, 112.00°WCaliente — 35.10°N, 120.00°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°W

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The named rock units Scaphohippus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scaphohippus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scaphohippus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Scaphohippus, 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

15 references

Each of the 48 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Scaphohippus

Credit
Ted Fremd
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pagnac 2006