Citellus Oken 1816 (squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Parent taxon: Marmotini according to C. C. Black 1963

See also Shotwell 1968 and Wilson and Reeder 1993

Sister taxa: Ammospermophilus, Arctomyoides, Callospermophilus, Cynomys, Eutamias, Ictidomys, Marmota, Miospermophilus, Neotamias, Notocitellus, Otospermophilus, Paenemarmota, Palaearctomys, Poliocitellus, Protospermophilus, Spermophilus, Tamias, Urocitellus, Xerospermophilus, Spermophilinus

Subtaxa: Citellus (Citellus) Citellus matachicensis

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Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Czechia (2), France (4), Greece (1), Hungary (18), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), Poland (7), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (7), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (4), United States (10: California, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia)

• Villafranchian of Hungary (4)

• Blancan of Mexico (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)

• Pliocene of Poland (2)

• Hemphillian of Mexico (2), United States (1: Oregon)

Total: 70 collections including 72 occurrences

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