Geomys

The genus Geomys contains 12 extant species of pocket gophers often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers. Like all pocket gophers, members of this genus are fossorial herbivores.

Geomys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GeomyiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Geomyidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 9.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 161 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 161 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 136 of 161 occurrencesPleistocene17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.4–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–2.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.7–1.1 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.1–560 ka Mya — about 29 occurrences560 ka–0 Mya — about 86 occurrences9.4 Mya11.7 ka16.8 Mya0 Mya

161 occurrences of Geomys 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

161 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

19 formations

Alamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WKingsdown — 37.05°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°WGila Conglomerate — 32.84°N, 110.00°WGila Conglomerate — 32.90°N, 109.10°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WSappa — 41.20°N, 96.60°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WVerde — 34.50°N, 112.50°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBallard — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBelleville — 39.90°N, 97.70°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WCamp Rice — 32.65°N, 107.23°W

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The named rock units Geomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geomys and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Geomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 159 sites for Geomys, 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

78 references

Each of the 161 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. 66 further references are not listed. 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 Geomys

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Geomys bursarius · nml:D.301

The description on this site

Licence
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 itGeomyini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1817