Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard and C. B. Schultz. 1948. A new Sciurid of Blancan Age from Kansa and Nebraska. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 3(3):1-11
Parent taxon: Marmotini according to C. C. Black 1963
See also Hibbard and Schultz 1948, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Ammospermophilus, Arctomyoides, Callospermophilus, Citellus, Cynomys, Eutamias, Ictidomys, Marmota, Miospermophilus, Neotamias, Notocitellus, Otospermophilus, Palaearctomys, Poliocitellus, Protospermophilus, Spermophilus, Tamias, Urocitellus, Xerospermophilus, Spermophilinus
Subtaxa: Paenemarmota barbouri Paenemarmota mexicana Paenemarmota nevadensis Paenemarmota sawrockensis
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Blancan of Mexico (3 collections), United States (16: Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (2), United States (4: Nebraska, Nevada)
• Miocene of United States (1: Idaho)
Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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