Sciurotamias

Sciurotamias is a genus of rodent in the family Sciuridae, found in China. It contains the following species:Père David's rock squirrel Forrest's rock squirrel

Sciurotamias

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Chinese rock squirrelPBDB
Sits inside
SciuridaePBDB
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 7.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 6 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 13 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.9 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Sciurotamias on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

1 formation

Bahe — 34.15°N, 109.33°E

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The named rock units Sciurotamias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sciurotamias and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sciurotamias and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

378 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Sciurotamias, 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

9 references

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 Sciurotamias

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sciurotamias 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.

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 itSciuridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1901