Dremomys
Red-cheeked squirrels are species of squirrels in the genus Dremomys in the subfamily Callosciurinae. The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.The red-throated squirrel is distributed in parts of southeastern Asia, in areas of the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam and southern central Yunnan in China. It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, D. rufigenis, but lives at higher attitudes - 2,500 to 3,000 metres in the case of the type specimen. The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan. Perny's long-nosed squirrel is found in China, India, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The red-hipped squirrel is found in China and Vietnam. The Asian red-cheeked squirrel is found in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Dibyendu Ash · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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- Also called
- red-cheeked squirrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- CallosciuriniPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
7 occurrences of Dremomys on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene81%
- Pliocene5%
- Pleistocene14%
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.
Dremomys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dremomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
182 taxa- Alilepus6 sites
- Blarinella6 sites
- Brachyrhizomys6 sites
- Ictitherium6 sites
- Laccopithecus robustus6 sites
- Muntiacus6 sites
- Neocricetodon6 sites
- Parapodemus6 sites
- Potamochoerus6 sites
- Selenoportax6 sites
- Sivaonyx bathygnathus6 sites
- Tupaiidae6 sites
- Typhlomys6 sites
- Albanensia5 sites
- Dorcabune5 sites
- Dorcatherium5 sites
- Hylopetes5 sites
- Hystrix5 sites
- Lanthanotherium sanmigueli5 sites
- Martes5 sites
- Metacervulus5 sites
- Monosaulax5 sites
- Mus5 sites
- Parapelomys5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dremomys, 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- A preliminary report on a micromammalian assemblage from the hominoid locality of Lufeng, Yunnan6
- A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China1
Each of the 7 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 content2
Picture of Dremomys
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dibyendu Ash
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Dremomys rufigenis · usnm:mammals:5488602
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCallosciurini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heude 1898