Eutamias minimus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- least chipmunkPBDB
- Sits inside
- EutamiasPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- semifossorialPBDB, for Eutamias
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 81 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 0 Mya.
10 occurrences of Eutamias minimus 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene99%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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.
Eutamias minimus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eutamias minimus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
342 taxa- Canis latrans7 sites
- Lepus townsendii6 sites
- Taxidea taxus6 sites
- Marmota flaviventris5 sites
- Neogale vison5 sites
- Brachyprotoma obtusata4 sites
- Equus4 sites
- Lemmiscus curtatus4 sites
- Mustela4 sites
- Mustela erminea4 sites
- Neogale frenata4 sites
- Neotoma4 sites
- Neotoma cinerea4 sites
- Phenacomys intermedius4 sites
- Spilogale putorius4 sites
- Sylvilagus audubonii4 sites
- Tamiasciurus hudsonicus4 sites
- Vulpes vulpes4 sites
- Aenocyon dirus3 sites
- Cervus canadensis3 sites
- Erethizon3 sites
- Erethizon dorsatum3 sites
- Lepus americanus3 sites
- Lynx rufus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Eutamias minimus, 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- Sciurid rodents from Porcupine Cave, Park Co., Colorado: Irvingtonian diversity and faunal dynamics4
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- A Middle Pleistocene (late Irvingtonian) mammalian fauna from Thistle Creek, Klondike Goldfields region of Yukon Territory, Canada1
- Quaternary paleontology and paleocology of Crystal Ball Cave, Millard County, Utah: with emphasis on mammals and description of a new species of fossil skunk1
- The late Pleistocene fauna of New Trout Cave, Pendleton County, West Virginia1
- The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia1
Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Eutamias minimus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Eutamias minimus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bachman 1839)