Parahippus brevidens
No picture of Parahippus brevidens 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 Parahippus brevidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParahippusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Equidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parahippus brevidens 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Parahippus brevidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parahippus brevidens and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parahippus brevidens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Acritohippus isonesus1 site
- Archaeohippus1 site
- Archaeohippus mourningi1 site
- Archaeohippus ultimus1 site
- Desmatippus avus1 site
- Dromomeryx borealis1 site
- Hesperogaulus1 site
- Merychippus relictus1 site
- Scaphohippus1 site
- Scaphohippus sumani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parahippus brevidens, 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
2 references- New remains of middle Miocene equids from the Cajon Valley Formation, San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino County, California, USA1
- Notice of new equine mammals from the Tertiary formation1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Parahippus brevidens 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 Parahippus brevidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parahippus brevidens 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 itParahippus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1874)