Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Alternative combination: Spermophilus jerae

Full reference: J. F. Sutton and W. W. Korth. 1995. Rodents (Mammalia) from the Barstovian (Miocene) Anceney local fauna, Montana. Annals of Carnegie Museum 64(4):267-314

Belongs to Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) according to J. F. Sutton and W. W. Korth 1995

See also Korth and Kron 2020

Sister taxa: Citellus (Otospermophilus) argonautus, Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni, Citellus (Otospermophilus) fricki, Citellus (Otospermophilus) matthewi, Citellus (Otospermophilus) pattersoni, Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli, Otospermophilus beecheyi, Otospermophilus variegatus, Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) boothi, Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus, Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) gidleyi

Type specimen: CM 27834, a partial skull (crushed skull with upper cheek teeth). Its type locality is Anceney, which is in a Barstovian channel sandstone in the Madison Valley Formation of Montana.

Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore

Distribution: found only at Anceney

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