Merychippus eohipparion
No picture of Merychippus eohipparion 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 Merychippus eohipparion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MerychippusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Equinae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Merychippus eohipparion 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Merychippus eohipparion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Merychippus eohipparion and its relatives
MioceneWhere Merychippus eohipparion and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aelurodon asthenostylus1 site
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Bouromeryx1 site
- Brachycrus1 site
- Calippus1 site
- Cormohipparion sphenodus1 site
- Cynelos1 site
- Dromomeryx1 site
- Hypohippus osborni1 site
- Merychippus insignis1 site
- Merychippus sejunctus1 site
- Microtomarctus conferta1 site
- Miolabis1 site
- Monosaulax curtus1 site
- Parahippus coloradensis1 site
- Protolabis1 site
- Teleoceras medicornutum1 site
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus1 site
- Tomarctus brevirostris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Merychippus eohipparion, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Merychippus eohipparion 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 Merychippus eohipparion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Merychippus eohipparion was found in Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itMerychippus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Osborn 1918)