Protospermophilus kelloggi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtospermophilusPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Protospermophilus kelloggi 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
10 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Protospermophilus kelloggi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protospermophilus kelloggi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Protospermophilus kelloggi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Oreolagus nebrascensis9 sites
- Brachyerix macrotis8 sites
- Geomyoidea8 sites
- Mesogaulus novellus8 sites
- Mesoscalops scopelotemos8 sites
- Miospermophilus wyomingensis8 sites
- Archaeolaginae7 sites
- Mioheteromyinae7 sites
- Schaubeumys sabrae7 sites
- Alphagaulus vetus5 sites
- Ameiseophis robinsoni5 sites
- Borophaginae5 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens5 sites
- Desmatolagus schizopetrus5 sites
- Gerrhonotus5 sites
- Merycodus sabulonis5 sites
- Equinae4 sites
- Harrymys irvini4 sites
- Limnoecus4 sites
- Paracynarctus kelloggi4 sites
- Perognathinae4 sites
- Pseudocemophora antiqua4 sites
- Barbouromeryx3 sites
- Brachycrus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Protospermophilus kelloggi, 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- Miocene mammals of the Split Rock area, Granite Mountains basin, central Wyoming8
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas1
- Mammals of the Topham Local Fauna: Early Miocene (Hemingfordian), Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatechewan1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Protospermophilus kelloggi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protospermophilus kelloggi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProtospermophilus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Black 1963