Protospermophilus

No picture of Protospermophilus 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 Protospermophilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MarmotiniPBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 29.5 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 31.8 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Oligocene — about 9 of 67 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 58 of 67 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 67 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.8–8.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–7.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.9–7.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.0–6.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.0–5.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.1–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29.5 Mya8.725 Mya32.3 Mya4.2 Mya

67 occurrences of Protospermophilus 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

67 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

22 formations

MR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WFleming — 30.80°N, 94.30°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WMascall — 44.90°N, 120.20°WMascall — 44.00°N, 120.13°WNS Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WBatesland — 43.20°N, 101.80°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WMonroe Creek — 43.30°N, 102.50°WRunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.75°N, 102.00°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.70°N, 102.50°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WTorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WTroublesome — 40.20°N, 106.10°WLefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EWildcat Hills Beds — 41.70°N, 103.67°WLavaca Flats Beds — 42.80°N, 102.20°WSheep Creek — 42.15°N, 103.70°W

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The named rock units Protospermophilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protospermophilus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Protospermophilus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

769 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Protospermophilus, 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

25 references

Each of the 67 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. 13 further references are 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 content0

No picture of Protospermophilus 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 Protospermophilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protospermophilus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gazin 1930