Tamias ateles
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TamiasPBDB
- 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.
24 occurrences of Tamias ateles 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
24 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
6 formations
- Barstow Formation13
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group2
- Esmeralda Formation2
- Colter Formation2
- NS Caliente Formation2
- MR Caliente Formation1
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The named rock units Tamias ateles has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tamias ateles and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tamias ateles and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Copemys longidens13 sites
- Cupidinimus halli11 sites
- Cupidinimus lindsayi11 sites
- Limnoecus tricuspis10 sites
- Perognathus furlongi9 sites
- Miospermophilus8 sites
- Perognathus minutus8 sites
- Copemys barstowensis7 sites
- Copemys russelli7 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis7 sites
- Gomphotherium6 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus6 sites
- Mojavemys lophatus6 sites
- Camelidae5 sites
- Mioheteromyinae5 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius5 sites
- Aphelops megalodus4 sites
- Archaeolaginae4 sites
- Caninae4 sites
- Chiroptera4 sites
- Lanthanotherium sawini4 sites
- Leptocyon vafer4 sites
- Monosaulax curtus4 sites
- Mustelidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Tamias ateles, 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
8 references- Small mammal fossils from the Barstow Formation, California9
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals4
- Paleontology and nonmarine stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley badlands, California; Part 1, Geology, faunal interpretations, and systematic descriptions of Chiroptera, Insectivora, and Rodentia3
- Two fossil accumulations in the Upper Barstow Formation, Mud Hills, Mojave Desert, CA2
- Arikareean, Hemingfordian, and Barstovian Mammals From the Miocene Colter Formation, Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming2
- New non-marine Mollusca from the Esmeralda Formation, Nevada2
- Copemys and the Barstovian/Hemingfordian Boundary1
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska1
Each of the 24 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
Media content0
No picture of Tamias ateles 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 Tamias ateles, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tamias ateles 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTamias through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1930)