Poliocitellus franklinii

Ceasol · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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- Sits inside
- PoliocitellusPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- 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 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Poliocitellus franklinii 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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 Poliocitellus franklinii 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.
Poliocitellus franklinii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Poliocitellus franklinii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Camelops2 sites
- Geomys bursarius2 sites
- Microtus pennsylvanicus2 sites
- Ondatra zibethicus2 sites
- Spermophilus tridecemlineatus2 sites
- Ambystoma tigrinum1 site
- Blarina brevicauda1 site
- Canis1 site
- Canis latrans1 site
- Capromeryx furcifer1 site
- Castor californicus1 site
- Castoroides1 site
- Chaetodipus hispidus1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Clethrionomys gapperi1 site
- Cnemidophorus sexlineatus1 site
- Cynomys hibbardi1 site
- Cynomys ludovicianus1 site
- Cynomys spenceri1 site
- Dipodomys1 site
- Equus1 site
- Equus calobatus1 site
- Equus conversidens1 site
- Eumeces1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Poliocitellus franklinii, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Mammals of the Elm Creek Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene of Beaver County, Oklahoma1
- Martin, 19691
Each of the 3 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 Poliocitellus franklinii
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ceasol
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Poliocitellus franklinii 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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What may have been alongside itPoliocitellus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sabine 1822)