This jerboa ranges across northern China and Mongolia. It lives in open sandy desert, uses burrows alone, and has a tail tuft with white and black markings.
The back and outer thighs are grayish buff, while the underside, forelimbs, hind limbs, and upper lip are white. The tail tuft has a white underside at its base, a white stripe through the black inner area, and a white tip.
It occupies open sandy desert with saltworts, ephedra, and desert bushes. It lives alone in burrows and eats green vegetation, roots, seeds, and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.