Bassaricyon gabbii · Epoch Explorer

The northern olingo, also known as the bushy-tailed olingo or, simply, the olingo, is an arboreal (tree-dwelling) member of the raccoon family, Procyonidae, which also includes the coatimundis and kinkajou. Native to Central America, it was the first species of olingo to be scientifically described; while it is considered by some authors to be the only "true" olingo species, a review of the genus Bassaricyon had shown there to be a total of four species, two of those now being considered synonymous with the northern olingo. Its specific name honors William More Gabb (1839-1878), who found and collected the first specimen for western science.

Jeremy Gatten · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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: BassaricyonPBDB
Diet: frugivore, carnivorePBDB, for Procyonidae
Life habit: arborealPBDB, for Bassaricyon
Motility: actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment: terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 12 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

2 occurrences of Bassaricyon gabbii on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

Holocene100%

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.

Bassaricyon gabbii and its relatives

Holocene

Where Bassaricyon gabbii and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bassaricyon gabbii, 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

Barro Colorado Island and Tropical BiologyLeigh and Wright, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., ed., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1
An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological StationTerborgh, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Bassaricyon gabbii

Source: Wikipedia/Commons
Credit: Jeremy Gatten
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use: the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bassaricyon gabbii 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.

The description on this site

Source: Wikipedia, “Northern olingo”
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside it Bassaricyon through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Allen 1876