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Tamias ateles

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Taxonomy
Eutamias ateles was named by Hall (1930). Its type specimen is UCMP 28521, a set of teeth (Worn right M1, M2, and M3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rodent Hill, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Barstow Formation of California.

It was recombined as Tamias (Neotamias) ateles by Bryant (1945); it was recombined as Nototamias ateles by Pratt and Morgan (1989); it was recombined as Tamias ateles by James (1963), Black (1963), Lindsay (1972), Sutton and Korth (1995) and Schiebout and Ting (2000).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Eutamias ateles Hall
1945Tamias (Neotamias) ateles Bryant p. 358
1963Tamias ateles Black
1963Tamias ateles James
1972Tamias ateles Lindsay
1989Nototamias ateles Pratt and Morgan
1995Tamias ateles Sutton and Korth
2000Tamias ateles Schiebout and Ting

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
Glires()
Simplicidentata()
orderRodentiaBowdich 1821
superfamilySciuroidea
familySciuridae
tribeMarmotini
genusTamiasIllinger 1811
speciesateles()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tamias ateles Hall 1930
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. D. Bryant 1945Teeth small, size about as in Tamias quadrivittatus inyoensis; protoconules absent; protolophs not greatly constricted at junction with protocone; metaconules smaller than in existing species of Neotamias; mesostyles relatively large; posterointernal part of m3 large