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Vertebrate Fossils from the Rockshelter
at the LoDaisKa Site[3]
By Edward Lewis
Cynthia and Henry Irwin excavated the rock shelter at the LoDaisKa Site on the Otto Sanger property by Strain Gulch near Morrison, Colorado 1956-1957. The vertebrate fossils were identified by the Upper Cenozoic Research Group: C. B. Schultz, T. M. Stout, and L. G. Tanner of the University of Nebraska, and Edward Lewis of the U.S. Geological Survey. Minor elements of the vertebrate fauna identified by them include 1 amphibian bone fragment, 2 lacertilian reptile vertebrae, and 16 bird bones and fragments of undetermined genera and species. All the other vertebrate remains were mammalian and include:
- Lagomorphs, gen-sp. undet.
- Lepus sp.†
- Cynomys sp.†
- Citellus sp.†
- Tamias sp. or Eutamias sp.
- ?Thomomys sp.
- Castor canadensis Kuhl
- ?Peromyscus sp.
- Microtinae, gen. and sp. indet.
- Canis sp.†
- Mephitis sp.
- Taxidea sp.†
- ?Felis (Puma) sp.
- Cervus canadensis (Erxleben)†
- Odocoileus sp.†
- Odocoileus sp. cf. O. hemionus (Rafinesque)
- ?Bos taurus Linnaeus[4]
- Bison bison (Linnaeus)†
- Ovis canadensis Shaw