Protospermophilus quatalensis
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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 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Protospermophilus quatalensis 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
17 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 quatalensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protospermophilus quatalensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Protospermophilus quatalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) cerroensis12 sites
- Leporidae12 sites
- Gomphotherium11 sites
- Camelidae10 sites
- Pliohippus tehonensis8 sites
- Caninae5 sites
- Petauristodon mathewsi5 sites
- Ammospermophilus fossilis3 sites
- Aphelops megalodus3 sites
- Copemys russelli3 sites
- Jimomys labaughi3 sites
- Lanthanotherium sawini3 sites
- Megahippus3 sites
- Mustela3 sites
- Neonatrix elongata3 sites
- Perognathus furlongi3 sites
- Siren miotexana3 sites
- Tamias ateles3 sites
- Anchitheriomys2 sites
- Borophaginae2 sites
- Copemys2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Domninoides2 sites
- Elaphe nebraskensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Protospermophilus quatalensis, 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- Paleontology and nonmarine stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley badlands, California; Part 1, Geology, faunal interpretations, and systematic descriptions of Chiroptera, Insectivora, and Rodentia13
- Insectivores, rodents, and carnivores of the Toledo Bend Local Fauna: an Arikareean (earliest Miocene) assemblage from the Texas Coastal Plain3
- Rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the Late Clarendonian (Miocene) Ash Hollow Formation, Brown County, Nebraska1
Each of the 17 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 Protospermophilus quatalensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 quatalensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protospermophilus quatalensis 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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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. (Gazin 1930)