Desmatippus

Desmatippus is an extinct, three-toed, browsing member of the Equidae. It lived in what is now North America during the Miocene period. Desmatippus was 60 cm in height and 20 kg in weight.

Desmatippus

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
AnchitheriinaePBDB
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 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.1 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 4 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 39 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.1 Mya16.3 Mya30 Mya4.8 Mya

43 occurrences of Desmatippus 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

43 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

16 formations

Olcott — 42.19°N, 103.73°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WMascall — 44.50°N, 119.30°WMascall — 44.00°N, 120.13°WParachucla — 30.20°N, 82.80°WParachucla — 30.00°N, 82.60°WTemblor — 36.10°N, 120.40°WTemblor — 36.54°N, 120.55°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WRosebud — 43.30°N, 102.50°WMarsland — 42.40°N, 103.80°WOakville — 30.10°N, 96.10°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WColter — 43.90°N, 110.80°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WVolcanic Sandstone — 43.60°N, 117.50°WSucker Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WVirgin Valley — 41.10°N, 117.80°WZia Sand — 35.70°N, 107.00°WRunningwater — 42.80°N, 103.10°W

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The named rock units Desmatippus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Desmatippus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Desmatippus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Desmatippus, 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

24 references

Each of the 43 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. 12 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 Desmatippus

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itAnchitheriinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott 1893