Ochotona spanglei

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Ochotona spanglei
Temporal range:
Late Miocene or Early Pliocene,
10.3–4.9  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Ochotonidae
Genus: Ochotona
Species:
†O. spanglei
Binomial name
†Ochotona spanglei
Shotwell 1956 [1] [2] [n 1]

Ochotona spanglei is an extinct species of pika (mammal in the family Ochotonidae), known from Late Miocene - Early Pliocene fossil from Oregon (USA). [1] [2] [n 1] Fossils were also found in Nebraska referred to as Ochotona cf. spanglei. [2] [3] [n 1]

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Ochotona spanglei is the earliest known pika, which inhabited North America. Pika came at the Miocene-Pliocene boundary from Eurasia. Extinction of O. spanglei was followed by an approximately three-million-year-long gap in the known North American pikas record. [4]

Fossil distribution

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Ochotona spanglei in the Paleobiology Database. [2] [pdb 1] [pdb 2] [pdb 3]
  2. ↑ The Paleobiology Database collection: McKay Reservoir (Neogene of the United States). [pdb 4] [pdb 1]
  3. ↑ The Paleobiology Database collection: Honey Creek (Neogene of the United States). [pdb 5] [pdb 2]
  4. ↑ The Paleobiology Database collection: Mailbox (Neogene of the United States). [pdb 6] [pdb 2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shotwell, J. Arnold (1956). "Hemphillian mammalian assemblage from northeastern Oregon". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 67 (6). Geological Society America: 717–738. Bibcode:1956GSAB...67..717S. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1956)67[717:HMAFNO]2.0.CO;2.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The Paleobiology Database. †Ochotona spanglei Shotwell 1956 (pika)" . Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Voorhies, M. R. (1990). Gustavson, T. C. (ed.). Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains. Bureau of Economic Geology Guidebook. Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas.
  4. ↑ Erbajeva, Margarita A.; Mead, Jim I.; Alexeeva, Nadezhda V.; Angelone, Chiara; Swift, Sandra L. (2011). "Taxonomic diversity of Late Cenozoic Asian and North American ochotonids (an overview)" (PDF). Palaeontologia Electronica. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: 1–9. Retrieved April 13, 2014.

Additional references of the Paleobiology Database

  1. 1 2 Shotwell, J. A. (1956). "Hemphillian mammalian assemblage from Northeastern Oregon". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 67 (6): 717. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1956)67[717:HMAFNO]2.0.CO;2.
  2. 1 2 3 Voorhies, M. R. (1990). Gustavson, T. C. (ed.). Bureau of Economic Geology Guidebook.
  3. ↑ Additional contributors to utilized records of Paleobiology Database (authorizers supplying these records) include John Alroy.
  4. ↑ "The Paleobiology Database collection: McKay Reservoir (Neogene of the United States)" . Retrieved 2015-03-14. authorized by John Alroy
  5. ↑ "The Paleobiology Database collection: Honey Creek (Neogene of the United States)" . Retrieved 2015-03-14. authorized by John Alroy
  6. ↑ "The Paleobiology Database collection: Mailbox (Neogene of the United States)" . Retrieved 2015-03-14. authorized by John Alroy


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