Urocitellus parryii

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve · CC BY 2.0 · 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- Also called
- arctic ground squirrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- UrocitellusPBDB
- 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 198 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Urocitellus parryii 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
8 occurrences- Pleistocene63%
- Holocene38%
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.
Urocitellus parryii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Urocitellus parryii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Dicrostonyx5 sites
- Equus5 sites
- Rangifer tarandus5 sites
- Vulpes lagopus5 sites
- Gulo gulo4 sites
- Lepus americanus4 sites
- Mammuthus4 sites
- Castoroides ohioensis3 sites
- Erignathus barbatus3 sites
- Lemmus3 sites
- Lepus arcticus3 sites
- Lota3 sites
- Microtus oeconomus3 sites
- Ochotona whartoni3 sites
- Ondatra zibethicus3 sites
- Ursus3 sites
- Anatidae2 sites
- Anser caerulescens2 sites
- Balaena mysticetus2 sites
- Canis2 sites
- Canis lupus2 sites
- Castor canadensis2 sites
- Clangula2 sites
- Coregonus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Urocitellus parryii, 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
6 references- Stratigraphic, Sedimentological and Faunal Evidence for the Occurrence of Pre-Sangamonian Artefacts in Northern Yukon3
- Subsistence Practices of Pioneering Thule– Inuit: A Faunal Analysis of Tiktalik1
- Declining foraging returns from an inexhaustible resource? Abundance indices and beluga whaling in the western Canadian Arctic1
- A Middle Pleistocene (late Irvingtonian) mammalian fauna from Thistle Creek, Klondike Goldfields region of Yukon Territory, Canada1
- Washout – the final chapter: 1985–86 NOGAP salvage excavations on Herschel Island1
- Quaternary vertebrate faunas of Canada and Alaska and their suggested chronological sequence1
Each of the 8 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 Urocitellus parryii
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Urocitellus parryii was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itUrocitellus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richardson 1825)