Neohipparion leptode

U.C.PARTY · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- NeohipparionPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Neohipparion
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Neohipparion leptode 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
14 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
5 formations
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group4
- Rattlesnake Formation1
- Thousand Creek Formation1
- Mehrten Formation1
- Oro Loma Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Neohipparion leptode has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neohipparion leptode and its relatives
MioceneWhere Neohipparion leptode and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Megatylopus8 sites
- Pleiolama vera6 sites
- Spermophilus6 sites
- Teleoceras fossiger6 sites
- Epicyon haydeni5 sites
- Hippotherium5 sites
- Nimravides thinobates5 sites
- Prosthennops serus5 sites
- Vulpes stenognathus5 sites
- Aphelops malacorhinus4 sites
- Aphelops mutilus4 sites
- Calippus4 sites
- Dipoides stirtoni4 sites
- Hypolagus vetus4 sites
- Pliohippus nobilis4 sites
- Tayassuinae4 sites
- Teleoceras4 sites
- Yumaceras figginsi4 sites
- Alforjas3 sites
- Amebelodon fricki3 sites
- Antilocaprinae3 sites
- Archaeolaginae3 sites
- Borophagus3 sites
- Borophagus secundus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Neohipparion leptode, 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
9 references- Stop 15: Early Hemphillian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles4
- Add Title3
- New Records of Middle and Late Miocene Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla From the Western Border of the San Joaquin Valley, Diablo Range, Fresno County, California1
- Stop 16: Late Hemphillian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles1
- A late Miocene (late early Hemphillian) biota from northwestern Kansas1
- Late Neogene Neohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida and Texas1
- Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America1
- A new species of Pliotaxidea (Mustelidae; Carnivora) from California1
- The Nevada Miocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas as faunal units1
Each of the 14 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

Picture of Neohipparion leptode
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- U.C.PARTY
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNeohipparion through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merriam 1915)