Paenemarmota barbouri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaenemarmotaPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Paenemarmota barbouri on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
13 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Paenemarmota barbouri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paenemarmota barbouri and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Paenemarmota barbouri and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Antilocapridae5 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens5 sites
- Gigantocamelus spatulus4 sites
- Borophagus diversidens3 sites
- Chasmaporthetes ossifragus3 sites
- Nannippus peninsulatus3 sites
- Odocoileus3 sites
- Perognathus pearlettensis3 sites
- Perognathus rexroadensis3 sites
- Bufo2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Cnemidophorus sexlineatus2 sites
- Dinofelis palaeoonca2 sites
- Equus (Asinus) cumminsi2 sites
- Eumeces2 sites
- Pituophis2 sites
- Platygonus2 sites
- Puma lacustris2 sites
- Scalopus blancoensis2 sites
- Sceloporus robustus2 sites
- Sigmodon minor2 sites
- Thamnophis2 sites
- Agkistrodon1 site
- Baiomys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Paenemarmota barbouri, 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
7 references- Zakrzewski, 19983
- Vertebrate Fossils From the Blanco Local Fauna of Texas3
- The Rodents from the Hagerman Local Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Idaho3
- Late Cenozoic Mammals from Northwestern Mexico1
- The Giant Ground Squirrel Paenemarmota1
- Mammals of the Rexroad Formation from Fox Canyon, Kansas1
- A new Sciurid of Blancan Age from Kansa and Nebraska1
Each of the 13 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 Paenemarmota barbouri
- 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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPaenemarmota through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hibbard and Schultz 1948