Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Alternative combinations: Citellus shotwelli, Otospermophilus shotwelli
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 Spermophilus according to W. W. Korth 1994
See also Barnosky 1986, Black 1963, Shotwell 1968 and Wilson and Reeder 1993
Sister taxa: Spermophilus armatus, Spermophilus boothi, Spermophilus cochisei, 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 spilosoma, Spermophilus superciliosus, Spermophilus taylori, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Spermophilus tuitus, Spermophilus wellingtonensis, Spermophilus wilsoni, Citellus ridgwayi
Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (4: Nebraska, Oregon collections)
• Miocene of Mexico (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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