Protohippus perditus

Protohippus perditus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtohippusPBDB
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 least 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.7–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.5 Mya9.4 Mya23.5 Mya4.2 Mya

27 occurrences of Protohippus perditus 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

27 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

6 formations

Valentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 40.10°N, 98.50°WValentine — 42.70°N, 102.50°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.13°WFleming — 29.70°N, 96.70°WFleming — 30.59°N, 94.91°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 30.30°N, 95.70°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WOakville — 30.10°N, 96.10°WGoodnight Beds — 35.00°N, 101.30°WLoup Fork — 42.70°N, 102.50°W

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The named rock units Protohippus perditus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protohippus perditus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Protohippus perditus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

232 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Protohippus perditus, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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 Protohippus perditus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Protohippus perditus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1858)