Spermophilus cragini Hibbard 1941 (ground squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Alternative combination: Citellus cragini

Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1941. The Borchers fauna, a new Pleistocene interglacial fauna from Meade County, Kansas. State Geological Survey of Kansas Bulletin 38(7):197-220

Belongs to Spermophilus according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980

See also Black 1963, Hibbard 1941 and Shotwell 1968

Sister taxa: Spermophilus armatus, Spermophilus boothi, Spermophilus cochisei, Spermophilus columbianus, 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: Its type locality is Borchers, which is in a Gelasian terrestrial siltstone in the Crooked Creek Formation of Kansas

Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore

Distribution: found only at Borchers

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