Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Alternative combination: Citellus meadensis
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1941. The Borchers fauna, a new Pleistocene interglacial fauna from Meade County, Kansas. State Geological Survey of Kansas Bulletin 38(7):197-220
Belongs to Spermophilus according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980
See also Black 1963, Hibbard 1941 and Shotwell 1968
Sister taxa: 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 meltoni, Spermophilus primitivus, Spermophilus rexroadensis, Spermophilus russelli, Spermophilus shotwelli, Spermophilus spilosoma, Spermophilus superciliosus, Spermophilus taylori, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Spermophilus tuitus, Spermophilus wellingtonensis, Spermophilus wilsoni, Citellus ridgwayi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Borchers, which is in a Gelasian terrestrial siltstone in the Crooked Creek Formation of Kansas
Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Alberta collection), United States (1: Kansas)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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