Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Synonym: Citellus Oken 1816
Parent taxon: Marmotini according to K. M. Helgen et al. 2009
See also Alroy 2002, Gray 1825, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mercer and Roth 2003, Shotwell 1968 and Wilson and Reeder 1993
Sister taxa: Ammospermophilus, Callospermophilus, Cynomys, Eutamias, Ictidomys, Marmota, Neotamias, Notocitellus, Otospermophilus, Poliocitellus, Tamias, Urocitellus, Xerospermophilus, Spermophilinus
Subtaxa: Citellus ridgwayi Spermophilus armatus Spermophilus boothi Spermophilus cochisei Spermophilus columbianus Spermophilus cragini Spermophilus cyanocittus Spermophilus dotti Spermophilus finlayensis Spermophilus fricki Spermophilus howelli Spermophilus jerae Spermophilus johnstoni Spermophilus lorisrusselli Spermophilus matachicensis Spermophilus matthewi Spermophilus mcgheei Spermophilus mckayensis Spermophilus meadensis Spermophilus meltoni Spermophilus primitivus Spermophilus rexroadensis Spermophilus russelli Spermophilus shotwelli Spermophilus spilosoma Spermophilus superciliosus Spermophilus taylori Spermophilus tridecemlineatus Spermophilus tuitus Spermophilus wellingtonensis Spermophilus wilsoni
Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Canada (5: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon), the Czech Republic (3), France (4), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Greece (7), Hungary (18), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (2), Mongolia (1), Poland (7), Romania (13), the Russian Federation (7), Turkey (2), Ukraine (5), United States (103: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Blancan of Mexico (2), United States (37: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of China (1), Hungary (4), Poland (2)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (2), United States (34: Arizona, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Mexico (1), Slovakia (2), United States (20: California, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 290 collections including 315 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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