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Thrirteened lined ground squirrel

Spermophilus tridecemlineatus

Photo by Hunter3
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Brownish with 13 alternating brown and whitish longitudinal lines sometimes partically broken into spots on back and sides.

Habitat:

Much of C North America from S Alberta to N New Mexico

Notes:

I found it at the ashfall fossil beds

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