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 cochisei, Spermophilus columbianus, Spermophilus dotti, Spermophilus finlayensis, Spermophilus howelli, Spermophilus johnstoni, Spermophilus lorisrusselli, Spermophilus mcgheei, Spermophilus meadensis, Spermophilus meltoni, Spermophilus primitivus, Spermophilus rexroadensis, Spermophilus russelli, Spermophilus spilosoma, Spermophilus superciliosus, Spermophilus taylori, Spermophilus tephrus, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Spermophilus tuitus, Spermophilus wellingtonensis, Spermophilus wilsoni
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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