Xenicohippus grangeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XenicohippusPBDB
- 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 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Xenicohippus grangeri on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
9 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Xenicohippus grangeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xenicohippus grangeri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Xenicohippus grangeri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Hyracotherium7 sites
- Cantius abditus4 sites
- Coryphodon4 sites
- Diacodexis metsiacus4 sites
- Hyopsodus4 sites
- Microsyops latidens4 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani4 sites
- Absarokius metoecus3 sites
- Anacodon ursidens3 sites
- Chriacus3 sites
- Didymictis3 sites
- Esthonyx3 sites
- Esthonyx bisulcatus3 sites
- Hyopsodus lysitensis3 sites
- Hyopsodus minor3 sites
- Palaeictops bicuspis3 sites
- Bunophorus2 sites
- Bunophorus robustus2 sites
- Cantius frugivorus2 sites
- Didelphodus absarokae2 sites
- Helaletidae2 sites
- Macrocranion nitens2 sites
- Miacidae2 sites
- Miacis exiguus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Xenicohippus grangeri, 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
2 references- Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado6
- Distribution and stratigraphic correlation of upper Paleocene and lower Eocene fossil mammal and plant localities of the Fort Union, Willwood, and Tatman formations, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming3
Each of the 9 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 Xenicohippus grangeri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Xenicohippus grangeri 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itXenicohippus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bown and Kihm 1981