Equus (Asinus) cumminsi

Equus cumminsi (Cope, 1893), a relative of Equus (Asinus) cumminsi — not Equus (Asinus) cumminsi itself

Not Equus (Asinus) cumminsi. This is Equus cumminsi (Cope, 1893), a relative — both are Equidae.

Collector(s): unknown · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
EquusPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Equus
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Equus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 7 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2 Mya900 ka

11 occurrences of Equus (Asinus) cumminsi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

11 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

6 formations

Love — 31.50°N, 105.20°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBallard — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPalomas — 34.00°N, 107.00°WSierra Ladrones — 35.10°N, 106.80°WCamp Rice — 31.50°N, 105.20°W

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The named rock units Equus (Asinus) cumminsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Equus (Asinus) cumminsi and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Equus (Asinus) cumminsi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Equus (Asinus) cumminsi, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 content2

Picture of Equus cumminsi (Cope, 1893)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): unknown
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Equus asinus · umr:Tur322

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

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What may have been alongside itEquus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1893)