Thomomys gidleyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThomomysPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Thomomys
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 210 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Thomomys gidleyi 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
18 occurrences- Pliocene56%
- Pleistocene44%
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
5 formations
- San Timoteo Formation10
- Temecula Arkose Formation2
- Ringold Formation2
- San Diego Formation1
- "unnamed sandstone" Formation1
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The named rock units Thomomys gidleyi 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.
Thomomys gidleyi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Thomomys gidleyi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) fossilis7 sites
- Peromyscus hagermanensis7 sites
- Perognathinae6 sites
- Sigmodon minor6 sites
- Hypolagus edensis4 sites
- Prodipodomys timoteoensis4 sites
- Dipodomys3 sites
- Hypolagus3 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens3 sites
- Prodipodomys3 sites
- Prodipodomys idahoensis3 sites
- Sylvilagus3 sites
- Alilepus vagus2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Canis lepophagus2 sites
- Castor californicus2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Geomyidae2 sites
- Hypolagus ringoldensis2 sites
- Leporidae2 sites
- Megalonyx leptostomus2 sites
- Microtus meadensis2 sites
- Mimomys (Ophiomys)2 sites
- Mimomys taylori2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Thomomys gidleyi, 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- Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California6
- Magnetostratigraphy and biochronology of the San Timoteo Badlands, southern California, with implications for local Pliocene–Pleistocene tectonic and depositional patterns3
- A review of the biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments in the Elsinore Fault Zone, Riverside County, California3
- The vertebrate fauna (late-Irvingtonian, mid-Pleistocene) of Ash Wash, Coyote Badlands, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California1
- A new terrestrial mammal assemblage of Middle Blancan age from the San Diego formation, California1
- A New Species of Capromeryx (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Taunton Local Fauna of Washington, and the Correlation with Other Blancan Faunas of Washington and Idaho1
- The San Timoteo Formation, Riverside County, California1
- The Vertebrate Faunas of the Pliocene Ringold Formation, South-Central Washington1
- Late Cenozoic Microtine Rodents from Wyoming and Idaho1
Each of the 18 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
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No picture of Thomomys gidleyi 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 Thomomys gidleyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thomomys gidleyi 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 itThomomys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1933