Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Alternative spelling: Marmotinae
Synonym: Tamiini
Parent taxon: Sciuridae according to J. M. Mercer and V. L. Roth 2003
See also Black 1963 and Frase and Hoffmann 1980
Sister taxa: Albanensia, Blackiini, Callosciurini, Cedromurinae, Comtia, Cynomyoides, Douglassciurus, Forsythia, Funambulini, Hesperopetes, Heteroxerus, Nototamias, Oligosciurus, Palaeosciurus, Parapaenemarmota, Perasciuravus, Petauria, Petauristodon, Pliopetaurista, Pliopetes, Pliosciuropterus, Prospermophilus, Protoxerini, Pteromyinae, Ratufini, Sciurillus, Sciurinae, Sciurini, Sciurion, Sciuropterus, Sciurotamias, Tamiasciurini, Vulcanisciurus, Xerini
Subtaxa: Ammospermophilus Arctomyoides Callospermophilus Citellus Cynomys Eutamias Ictidomys Marmota Miospermophilus Neotamias Notocitellus Otospermophilus Paenemarmota Palaearctomys Poliocitellus Protospermophilus Spermophilinus Spermophilus Tamias Urocitellus Xerospermophilus
Type: Marmota
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Canada (23: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (2), Czechia (3), France (6), Georgia (3), Germany (2), Greece (7), Hungary (18), Italy (6), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (3), Monaco (2), Mongolia (1), Poland (7), Romania (13), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (3), Türkiye (2), Ukraine (5), United States (243: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Villafranchian of Hungary (4)
• MN 16 of Poland (2)
• Blancan of Mexico (7), United States (71: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of China (3), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Poland (4)
• MN 13 of Greece (1)
• Turolian of China (1), Greece (5), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (9)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (4), United States (44: Arizona, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Austria (4), Canada (4: Saskatchewan), China (8), France (14), Germany (16), Greece (7), Hungary (2), India (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (4), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (1), Slovakia (2), South Korea (1), Spain (8), Switzerland (12), Türkiye (3), United States (138: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (3: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (12: California, Idaho, Nebraska)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (7: Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota)
• Eocene of China (1)
Total: 776 collections including 1041 occurrences