Spermophilus russelli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpermophilusPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- semifossorialPBDB, for Spermophilus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Spermophilus russelli on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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 Spermophilus russelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spermophilus russelli and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Spermophilus russelli and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Castor californicus2 sites
- Hypolagus ringoldensis2 sites
- Megalonyx leptostomus2 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens2 sites
- Plionarctos harroldorum2 sites
- Thomomys gidleyi2 sites
- Alilepus vagus1 site
- Alilepus wilsoni1 site
- Ammospermophilus hanfordi1 site
- Bassariscus casei1 site
- Borophagus diversidens1 site
- Borophagus hilli1 site
- Bretzia pseudalces1 site
- Buisnictis breviramus1 site
- Camelops1 site
- Canis1 site
- Canis lepophagus1 site
- Capromeryx tauntonensis1 site
- Charina bottae1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Crotalus1 site
- Dinofelis palaeoonca1 site
- Dipoides rexroadensis1 site
- Elaphe pliocenica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Spermophilus russelli, 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- Evolutionary and biogeographic implications of ground squirrels from the mid-Blancan Taunton local fauna, south-central Washington1
- The Vertebrate Faunas of the Pliocene Ringold Formation, South-Central Washington1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Spermophilus russelli 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 Spermophilus russelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spermophilus russelli 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 itSpermophilus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gustafson 1978