Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OtospermophilusPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli and its relatives
MioceneWhere Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
157 taxa- Castor californicus4 sites
- Borophagus3 sites
- Dipoides3 sites
- Scapanus proceridens3 sites
- <Voorhies cricetid>2 sites
- Agriotherium2 sites
- Antilocapridae2 sites
- Apalone2 sites
- Aphelops mutilus2 sites
- Bensonomys2 sites
- Brachyopsigale dubius2 sites
- Bufo2 sites
- Bufo holmani2 sites
- Buisnictis schoffi2 sites
- Castor2 sites
- Chrysemys picta2 sites
- Citellus (Otospermophilus) matthewi2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Crotalus2 sites
- Dinohippus2 sites
- Dipoides wilsoni2 sites
- Elaphe obsoleta2 sites
- Epigaulus hatcheri2 sites
- Eucyon davisi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli, 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
3 references- A review of the North American Tertiary Sciuridae3
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska2
- Late Cenozoic Mammals from Northwestern Mexico1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli 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 itOtospermophilus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Black 1963)