Megascapheus umbrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- southern pocket gopherPBDB
- Sits inside
- MegascapheusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 81 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Megascapheus umbrinus 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene94%
- Holocene6%
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 Megascapheus umbrinus 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.
Megascapheus umbrinus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Megascapheus umbrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Canis latrans3 sites
- Lynx rufus3 sites
- Antilocapra americana2 sites
- Antrozous pallidus2 sites
- Camelops hesternus2 sites
- Cratogeomys castanops2 sites
- Equus conversidens2 sites
- Lepus californicus2 sites
- Microtus pennsylvanicus2 sites
- Myotis2 sites
- Neotoma cinerea2 sites
- Neotoma lepida2 sites
- Puma concolor2 sites
- Smilodon fatalis2 sites
- Sylvilagus audubonii2 sites
- Accipiter gentilis1 site
- Accipiter striatus1 site
- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Ammospermophilus leucurus1 site
- Anas acuta1 site
- Anas crecca1 site
- Anas platyrhynchos1 site
- Antigone canadensis1 site
- Aquila chrysaetos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Megascapheus umbrinus, 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 Late Pleistocene-Holocene fauna from Chihuahua, Mexico1
- Quaternary paleontology and paleocology of Crystal Ball Cave, Millard County, Utah: with emphasis on mammals and description of a new species of fossil skunk1
- Pleistocene mammals from Aguascalientes, central Mexico1
Each of the 3 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 Megascapheus umbrinus 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 Megascapheus umbrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megascapheus umbrinus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMegascapheus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richardson 1829)