Oligospermophilus douglassi
No picture of Oligospermophilus douglassi 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 Oligospermophilus douglassi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OligospermophilusPBDB
- 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 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Oligospermophilus douglassi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Brule Formation · White River Group4
- Chadron Formation2
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Oligospermophilus douglassi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oligospermophilus douglassi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Oligospermophilus douglassi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Altasciurus relictus3 sites
- Palaeolagus hemirhizis3 sites
- Adjidaumo intermedius2 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus2 sites
- Aulolithomys bounites2 sites
- Domnina gradata2 sites
- Heliscomys vetus2 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax2 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius2 sites
- Hypisodus minimus2 sites
- Leptomeryx2 sites
- Megalagus turgidus2 sites
- Micropternodus borealis2 sites
- Oligoryctes cameronensis2 sites
- <Novacek leptictid>1 site
- Adjidaumo minutus1 site
- Altasciurus1 site
- Altasciurus albiclivus1 site
- Altasciurus clausulus1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Ankylodon progressus1 site
- Ansomys cyanotephrus1 site
- Apatemys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Oligospermophilus douglassi, 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
3 references- Sciurid rodents (Mammalia) from the Chadronian and Orellan (Oligocene) of Nebraska4
- Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
Each of the 6 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 Oligospermophilus douglassi 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 Oligospermophilus douglassi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oligospermophilus douglassi 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 itOligospermophilus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Korth 1981)