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Title: Pleistocene Pocket Gophers From San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Author: Robert J. Russell

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 9, No. 21, pp. 539-548
January 14, 1960

Pleistocene Pocket Gophers
From San Josecito Cave,
Nuevo Leon, Mexico

BY

ROBERT J. RUSSELL

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1960

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 9, No. 21, pp. 539-548
Published January 14, 1960

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1960

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Pleistocene Pocket Gophers From San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

BY

ROBERT J. RUSSELL

Cueva de San Josecito in the province of Aramberri, near the town on
Aramberri, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, is at an elevation of approximately 7400
feet above sea level on the east-facing slope of the Sierra Madre
Occidental in a limestone scarp. The dominant vegetation about the cave
is the decidedly boreal forest association of pine and live oak.
Additional information concerning the cave is provided by Miller
(1943:143-144).

Animal remains recovered from San Josecito Cave are among the most
important Pleistocene finds in Mexico, and include the most extensive
collection of Pleistocene geomyids. The vertebrate remains are probably
late Pleistocene in age; certainly they are post-Blancan, since the
genera _Equus_,