Geomys pinetis

The southeastern pocket gopher is a species of pocket gopher that is native to the southeastern United States. It occurs in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, where it is the only pocket gopher.

Geomys pinetis

Uncredited · 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
southeastern pocket gopherPBDB
Sits inside
GeomysPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Geomyidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Geomys
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 645 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pleistocene — about 31 of 31 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences1.8–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–997 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences997 ka–920 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences920 ka–843 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences843 ka–767 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences767 ka–690 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences690 ka–613 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences613 ka–537 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences537 ka–460 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460 ka–383 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383 ka–307 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307 ka–230 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230 ka–153 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153 ka–77 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences77 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences774 ka129 ka2.3 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Geomys pinetis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

31 occurrences

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

Bermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°W

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The named rock units Geomys pinetis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geomys pinetis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Geomys pinetis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

508 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Geomys pinetis, 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

13 references

Each of the 31 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Geomys pinetis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Geomys pinetis pinetis · UF:mammals:1199

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1817