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FIGURE 8.2.5. Section of the microvertebrate deposit at MNA locality 318 containing much of the anterior appendicular skeleton of a pocket gopher, Geomys (Nerterogeomys) minor. Gopher bones and teeth are shaded in the key and include a p4 (Gp4) and another cheek tooth (Gt), a scapular head (Gs), right and left humeri (Gh), ulnae (Gu), and radii (Gr), and several stout phalanges (Gx). In addition, another molar, the dorsal portion of a cranium with both I1s, and four more stout phalanges also belonging to the pocket gopher are not in this photograph but occurred adjacent to the area shown. Also visible in the area shown are a finch upper mandible (Fum), ulna (Fu), and partial coracoid (Fc), a Prodipodomys humerus (Kh), auditory bulla (Kb), and cheek tooth (Kc), a rodent calcaneus (c), and a mammal rib (r). Arrow points northward.
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