Desmatippus avus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DesmatippusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Equidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equidae
- 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.
14 occurrences of Desmatippus avus 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
14 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
- Mascall Formation6
- Temblor Formation2
- Butte Creek Formation1
- Volcanic Sandstone Formation1
- Sucker Creek Formation1
- Virgin Valley Formation1
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The named rock units Desmatippus avus 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.
Desmatippus avus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Desmatippus avus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Acritohippus isonesus7 sites
- Merychippus brevidontus6 sites
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus6 sites
- Dromomeryx borealis5 sites
- Camelidae4 sites
- Hypohippus osborni4 sites
- Merychippus californicus4 sites
- Aphelops3 sites
- Hesperogaulus3 sites
- Hypohippus3 sites
- Liodontia alexandrae3 sites
- Proboscidea3 sites
- Aphelops megalodus2 sites
- Archaeohippus mourningi2 sites
- Archaeohippus ultimus2 sites
- Borophaginae2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Dromomerycidae2 sites
- Equinae2 sites
- Hesperogaulus gazini2 sites
- Heteromyidae2 sites
- Leporidae2 sites
- Merychippus relictus2 sites
- Merycodontinae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Desmatippus avus, 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
6 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals5
- The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA4
- The Nevada Miocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas as faunal units2
- New Records of Middle and Late Miocene Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla From the Western Border of the San Joaquin Valley, Diablo Range, Fresno County, California1
- A Miocene Mammalian Fauna From Sucker Creek, Southeastern Oregon1
- Notice of new equine mammals from the Tertiary formation1
Each of the 14 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 Desmatippus avus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Desmatippus avus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Desmatippus avus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDesmatippus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1874)