Neohipparion

Neohipparion is an extinct genus of equid, from the Neogene of North America and Central America.

Neohipparion

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
HipparioniniPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Equinae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 160 occurrencesMiocene — about 144 of 160 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 160 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 160 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences10.0–9.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 15 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 15 occurrences6.9–6.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences6.2–5.4 Mya — about 15 occurrences5.4–4.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.2–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–900 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12.5 Mya4.7 Mya23.5 Mya900 ka

160 occurrences of Neohipparion 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

160 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

35 formations

Ash Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 43.30°N, 102.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 100.70°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.00°N, 82.20°WPeace River — 27.50°N, 82.50°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 35.70°N, 102.30°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WOgallala — 37.20°N, 99.90°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.77°WOgallala — 39.02°N, 99.52°WOgallala — 35.77°N, 99.57°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.08°N, 100.67°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBone Valley — 27.90°N, 81.80°WBone Valley — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBone Valley — 27.50°N, 82.50°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.49°N, 97.67°WJuchipila — 21.71°N, 102.96°WJuchipila — 21.61°N, 102.99°WJuchipila — 21.75°N, 103.00°WFlaxville Gravels — 48.80°N, 105.00°WNeroly — 37.60°N, 120.80°WPetaluma — 38.30°N, 122.50°WMehrten — 37.60°N, 120.80°WJacalitos — 36.28°N, 120.33°WGoodnight Beds — 35.00°N, 101.30°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBridwell — 33.70°N, 101.90°WEl Camarón — 16.55°N, 96.03°WGracias — 14.60°N, 88.50°WRattlesnake — 44.50°N, 119.30°WThousand Creek — 41.10°N, 117.80°WKern River — 35.30°N, 118.50°WSanta Fe — 35.70°N, 107.00°W

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The named rock units Neohipparion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neohipparion and its relatives

Miocene

Where Neohipparion and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 151 sites for Neohipparion, 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

63 references

Each of the 160 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. 51 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Neohipparion

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Neohipparion eurystyle · UF:VP:208601

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gidley 1903