Bassariscus astutus

The ringtail is a mammal of the raccoon family native to arid regions of North America. It is widely distributed and well-adapted to its distributed areas. It has been legally trapped for its fur. Globally, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List but is a Conservation Strategy Species in Oregon and Fully Protected in California. The ringtail is the state mammal of Arizona.

Bassariscus astutus

Robertbody at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
ringtailPBDB
Sits inside
BassariscusPBDB
Diet
frugivore, carnivorePBDB, for Procyonidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Bassariscus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Mass
27 gWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 2 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 14 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pleistocene — about 7 of 11 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 11 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.3–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.0–950 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences950 ka–887 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences887 ka–823 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences823 ka–760 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences760 ka–697 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences697 ka–633 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences633 ka–570 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences570 ka–507 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences507 ka–443 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443 ka–380 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences380 ka–317 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317 ka–253 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253 ka–190 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190 ka–127 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127 ka–63 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences63 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences14 ka – 11.7 ka1.9 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Bassariscus astutus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

11 occurrences

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

La Habra — 33.60°N, 117.80°W

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The named rock units Bassariscus astutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bassariscus astutus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bassariscus astutus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Bassariscus astutus, 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

11 references

Each of the 11 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 content3

Picture of Bassariscus astutus

Credit
Robertbody at en.wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Bassariscus astutus · USNM:MAMM:USNM 591268

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBassariscus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lichtenstein 1830)