Euxerus erythropus
The striped ground squirrel is a species of squirrel native to Africa. It was first described by Geoffroy in 1803, but the binomial authority is sometimes incorrectly cited as "Desmarest, 1817". There are six subspecies. It is a moderately large ground squirrel with sandy-brown or dark-brown fur with a white lateral stripe and whitish underparts. Adults live alone or in pairs in a simple burrow with a central nest, foraging, mostly on the ground, for seeds, nuts and roots, and caching excess food under stones. This is a common species with a wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern".
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuxerusPBDB
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.
4 occurrences of Euxerus erythropus 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
4 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Euxerus erythropus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Euxerus erythropus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Euxerus erythropus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Eudorcas rufifrons4 sites
- Genetta4 sites
- Giraffa camelopardalis4 sites
- Hystrix cristata4 sites
- Lepus4 sites
- Numida meleagris4 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus4 sites
- Pila4 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Bovidae3 sites
- Canis3 sites
- Felis silvestris3 sites
- Hyaena hyaena3 sites
- Mammalia3 sites
- Ovis ammon3 sites
- Struthio camelus3 sites
- Varanus exanthematicus3 sites
- Viverridae3 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Bos primigenius2 sites
- Capra aegagrus2 sites
- consobrina consobrina2 sites
- Corvus2 sites
- Equus asinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Euxerus erythropus, 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- The Late Prehistory of the Eastern Sahel3
- A revision of the faunal remains from two central Sudanese sites: Khartoum Hospital and Esh Shaheinab1
Each of the 4 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 Euxerus erythropus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- geolas
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Euxerus erythropus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itEuxerus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Saint-Hilaire 1803)