Dinohippus spectans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DinohippusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Dinohippus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Dinohippus spectans 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
19 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Drewsey Formation2
- Chalk Hills Formation · Idaho Group2
- Chalk Butte Formation1
- Rattlesnake Formation1
- Garrity Formation1
- NS Caliente Formation1
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The named rock units Dinohippus spectans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dinohippus spectans and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dinohippus spectans and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Camelidae10 sites
- Dipoides stirtoni6 sites
- Felidae5 sites
- Hypolagus vetus5 sites
- Teleoceras5 sites
- Antilocapridae4 sites
- Proboscidea4 sites
- Sphenophalos4 sites
- Tayassuidae4 sites
- Tayassuinae4 sites
- Vulpes stenognathus4 sites
- Aphelops mutilus3 sites
- Borophagus3 sites
- Emys marmorata3 sites
- Hemiauchenia3 sites
- Indarctos oregonensis3 sites
- Megatylopus3 sites
- Microtoscoptes disjunctus3 sites
- Scapanus proceridens3 sites
- Spermophilus3 sites
- Talpidae3 sites
- Alforjas2 sites
- Archaeolaginae2 sites
- Borophaginae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Dinohippus spectans, 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 mammals13
- Owyhee bones: Hemphillian (latest Miocene) Little Jacks Creek (LJC) and Sugar Creek (SC) terrestrial local faunas of the western Snake River Plain, Owyhee County, Idaho2
- Lagomorpha and Rodentia of the early Hemphillian (late Miocene) Mulholland localities, Contra Costa County, California, USA1
- The Middle Pliocene Mammalian Fauna from Smiths Valley, Nevada1
- New middle Pliocene rodent and lagomorph faunas from Oregon and California1
- A preliminary report on the vertebrate paleontology of the Llano Estacado1
Each of the 19 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 Dinohippus spectans 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 Dinohippus spectans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dinohippus spectans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDinohippus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1880)