Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus
No picture of Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus 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 Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OtospermophilusPBDB
- 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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus 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
4 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
1 formation
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group4
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The named rock units Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Copemys4 sites
- Phelosaccomys hibbardi4 sites
- Teleoceras major4 sites
- Ammospermophilus junturensis3 sites
- Cormohipparion occidentale3 sites
- Epicyon saevus3 sites
- Hesperolagomys galbreathi3 sites
- Longirostromeryx wellsi3 sites
- Megatylopus3 sites
- Pliohippus pernix3 sites
- Procamelus grandis3 sites
- Protohippus supremus3 sites
- Pseudhipparion gratum3 sites
- Aepycamelus2 sites
- Ameiseophis robinsoni2 sites
- Antecalomys phthanus2 sites
- Apatosagittarius terrenus2 sites
- Archaeolaginae2 sites
- Balearica2 sites
- Berriochloa2 sites
- Ceratogaulus anecdotus2 sites
- Chrysemys2 sites
- Cnemidophorus sexlineatus2 sites
- Copemys pisinnus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus, 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
2 references- Additonal rodents (Mammalia) from the Clarendonian (Miocene) of northcentral Nebraska and a review of Clarendonian rodent biostratigraphy of that area3
- The geology and paleontology of Ashfall Fossil Beds, a late Miocene (Clarendonian) mass-death assemblage, Antelope County and adjacent Knox County, Nebraska, USA1
Each of the 4 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 Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus 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 Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus 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 itOtospermophilus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth 1997