Cratogeomys castanops

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- yellow-faced pocket gopherPBDB
- Sits inside
- CratogeomysPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 198 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Cratogeomys castanops 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene84%
- Holocene16%
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 Cratogeomys castanops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cratogeomys castanops and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cratogeomys castanops and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Sylvilagus audubonii6 sites
- Lynx rufus5 sites
- Neotoma albigula5 sites
- Canis latrans4 sites
- Lepus californicus4 sites
- Antilocapra americana3 sites
- Bassariscus astutus3 sites
- Erethizon dorsatum3 sites
- Megascapheus bottae3 sites
- Microtus mexicanus3 sites
- Neotoma micropus3 sites
- Notiosorex crawfordi3 sites
- Odocoileus hemionus3 sites
- Otospermophilus variegatus3 sites
- Peromyscus maniculatus3 sites
- Reithrodontomys megalotis3 sites
- Sigmodon hispidus3 sites
- Spermophilus spilosoma3 sites
- Taxidea taxus3 sites
- Aenocyon dirus2 sites
- Antrozous pallidus2 sites
- Chaetodipus hispidus2 sites
- Conepatus leuconotus2 sites
- Cynomys ludovicianus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cratogeomys castanops, 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
6 references- Late Pleistocene and early Recent mammals from Fowlkes Cave, southern Culberson County, Texas2
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- A Late Pleistocene-Holocene fauna from Chihuahua, Mexico1
- Pleistocene Lagomorpha and Rodentia from the San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico1
- The archaeological and faunal material from Williams Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas1
- The fauna of Burnet Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico1
Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Cratogeomys castanops
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Cratogeomys castanops · MSB:Mamm:MSB:Mamm:63804
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCratogeomys through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Baird 1852)