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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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