Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Full reference: C. C. Black. 1963. A review of the North American Tertiary Sciuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 130(3):109-248
Parent taxon: Marmotini according to C. C. Black 1963
See also McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Ammospermophilus, Arctomyoides, Callospermophilus, Citellus, Cynomys, Eutamias, Ictidomys, Marmota, Neotamias, Notocitellus, Otospermophilus, Paenemarmota, Palaearctomys, Poliocitellus, Protospermophilus, Spermophilus, Tamias, Urocitellus, Xerospermophilus, Spermophilinus
Subtaxa: Miospermophilus bryanti Miospermophilus lavertyi Miospermophilus wyomingensis
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan collection), United States (40: California, Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (2: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (9: California)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 54 collections including 55 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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