Megahippus matthewi
No picture of Megahippus matthewi 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 Megahippus matthewi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegahippusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Megahippus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Megahippus matthewi 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
7 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
5 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Ash Hollow Formation1
- Esmeralda Formation1
- Dove Spring Formation1
- referred Chamita Formation1
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The named rock units Megahippus matthewi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megahippus matthewi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megahippus matthewi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Gomphotherium4 sites
- Epicyon saevus3 sites
- Pliohippus pernix3 sites
- Teleoceras major3 sites
- Aelurodon ferox2 sites
- Aelurodon taxoides2 sites
- Aphelops megalodus2 sites
- Archaeolaginae2 sites
- Borophaginae2 sites
- Castoridae2 sites
- Cosoryx furcatus2 sites
- Hypohippus affinis2 sites
- Ischyrocyon2 sites
- Leptarctus2 sites
- Leptocyon vafer2 sites
- Merychyus2 sites
- Perognathus minutus2 sites
- Pliohippus tantalus2 sites
- Procamelus grandis2 sites
- Prodipoides dividerus2 sites
- Protolabis heterodontus2 sites
- Pseudhipparion gratum2 sites
- Pseudhipparion retrusum2 sites
- <Hunt ursid>1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Megahippus matthewi, 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- The Burge and Minnechaduza Clarendonian Mammalian Faunas of North-Central Nebraska2
- Review of Megahippus and Hypohippus from the Middle Miocene Barstow Formation of California1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Road Log Neogene geology of the Española Basin, New Mexico1
- Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California1
- Megahippus and Hyohippus (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from the Esmeralda Formation of Nevada1
Each of the 7 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 content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- UIPaleoRepository
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Megahippus matthewi 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 Megahippus matthewi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMegahippus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barbour 1914)