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Spermophilus cragini

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Taxonomy
Citellus cragini was named by Hibbard (1941). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Borchers, which is in a Gelasian terrestrial siltstone in the Crooked Creek Formation of Kansas.

It was recombined as Spermophilus cragini by Hemming (1956), Shotwell (1968) and Kurten and Anderson (1980).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. matachisensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1941Citellus cragini Hibbard
1956Spermophilus cragini Hemming
1963Citellus cragini Black
1968Spermophilus cragini Shotwell
1980Spermophilus cragini Kurten and Anderson

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
—Glires()
—Simplicidentata()
orderRodentiaBowdich 1821
superfamilySciuroidea
familySciuridae
tribeMarmotini
genusSpermophilusCuvier 1825
speciescragini()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Spermophilus cragini Hibbard 1941
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available