Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Parent taxon: Marmotini according to K. M. Helgen et al. 2009
See also Alroy 2002, Dalquest and Patrick 1989, Gray 1825, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Mercer and Roth 2003
Sister taxa: Ammospermophilus, Arctomyoides, Callospermophilus, Citellus, Cynomys, Eutamias, Ictidomys, Marmota, Miospermophilus, Neotamias, Notocitellus, Otospermophilus, Paenemarmota, Palaearctomys, Poliocitellus, Protospermophilus, Tamias, Urocitellus, Xerospermophilus, Spermophilinus
Subtaxa: Spermophilus armatus Spermophilus boothi Spermophilus cochisei Spermophilus columbianus Spermophilus cragini Spermophilus cyanocittus Spermophilus dotti Spermophilus finlayensis Spermophilus howelli Spermophilus jerae Spermophilus johnstoni Spermophilus lorisrusselli Spermophilus mcgheei Spermophilus meadensis Spermophilus meltoni Spermophilus primitivus Spermophilus rexroadensis Spermophilus russelli Spermophilus spilosoma Spermophilus superciliosus Spermophilus taylori Spermophilus tridecemlineatus Spermophilus tuitus Spermophilus wellingtonensis
Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (5: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon collections), Czechia (1), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Greece (6), Mexico (2), Romania (12), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1), United States (95: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (38: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene of China (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (23: Arizona, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas)
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Slovakia (2), United States (19: California, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 211 collections including 228 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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