Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
type locality is 20341
Alternative combination: Citellus cochisei
Full reference: J. W. Gidley. 1922. Preliminary report on fossil vertebrates of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona, with descriptions of new species of Rodentia and Lagomorpha. Shorter contributions to general geology, 1922 131:119-131
Belongs to Spermophilus according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980
See also Black 1963, Gidley 1922 and Shotwell 1968
Sister taxa: Spermophilus armatus, Spermophilus boothi, Spermophilus columbianus, Spermophilus cragini, Spermophilus cyanocittus, Spermophilus dotti, Spermophilus finlayensis, Spermophilus fricki, Spermophilus howelli, Spermophilus jerae, Spermophilus johnstoni, Spermophilus lorisrusselli, Spermophilus matachicensis, Spermophilus matthewi, Spermophilus mcgheei, Spermophilus mckayensis, Spermophilus meadensis, Spermophilus meltoni, Spermophilus primitivus, Spermophilus rexroadensis, Spermophilus russelli, Spermophilus shotwelli, Spermophilus spilosoma, Spermophilus superciliosus, Spermophilus taylori, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Spermophilus tuitus, Spermophilus wellingtonensis, Spermophilus wilsoni, Citellus ridgwayi
Type specimen: USNM 10491, a partial skull (portion of a right maxillary containing all the cheek teeth)
Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Arizona collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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