Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Alternative combinations: Citellus matthewi, Otospermophilus matthewi
Full reference: C. C. Black. 1963. A review of the North American Tertiary Sciuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 130(3):109-248
Belongs to Citellus (Otospermophilus) according to C. C. Black 1963
See also Barnosky 1986, Korth 1994, Shotwell 1968 and Wilson and Reeder 1993
Sister taxa: Citellus (Otospermophilus) argonautus, Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni, Citellus (Otospermophilus) fricki, Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli, Otospermophilus beecheyi, Otospermophilus variegatus, Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) boothi, Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus, Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) gidleyi, Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) jerae
Type specimen: AMNH 17578, a mandible (partial right mandible with i, p4-m3). Its type locality is Aphelops Draw Quarries, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Snake Creek Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (3: Nebraska collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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