TABLE 1. Relative abundance of vertebrates at MNA locality 318 based on crania, dentaries, and isolated premolars and molars. Taxa are arranged from most abundant to least abundant from top to bottom.

Taxon

Crania

Cranial Bones

 

 

All Cheek Teeth

 

Molars Only

Overall
MNI

Percent of
Overall MNI

Maxilla

Dentary

MNI

 

Quarried

Screened

 

No.

MNI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prodipodomys idahoensis

4

5

11

6

 

68

52

 

82

7

7

20

Geomys minor

2

0

7

4

 

24

0

 

18

2

4

11.4

Bensonomys arizonae

0

0

5

3

 

7

5

 

12

1

3

8.6

Sigmodon minor

2

1

4

2

 

19

14

 

33

3

3

8.6

Passeriformes

 

 

 

coracoids N = 5

 

 

 

3

8.6

Perognathus strigipredus

0

1

2

1

 

13

21

 

24

2

2

5.7

Onychomys bensoni

0

1

2

1

 

10

5

 

15

2

2

5.7

Reithrodontomys cf. wetmorei

0

0

2

1

 

5

0

 

5

1

1

2.9

Neotoma vaughani

0

1

1

1

 

8

0

 

8

1

1

2.9

Postcopemys sp.

0

0

0

0

 

1

4

 

5

1

1

2.9

Jacobsomys verdensis

0

0

0

0

 

0

4

 

4

1

1

2.9

Soricidae

0

0

1

1

 

0

1

 

1

1

1

2.9

Lasiurus cf. blossevillii

0

0

0

0

 

0

5

 

2

1

1

2.9

Prosigmodon holocuspis

0

0

0

0

 

0

1

 

1

1

1

2.9

Urodela

 

 

 

jaw fragments N = 2

 

 

 

1

2.9

Cricetidae indet.

 

 

 

 

 

6

19

 

25

3

3

8.6

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

35

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