Pleistocene Soricidae from San Josecito Cave,
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
BY JAMES S. FINDLEY
University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 5, No. 36, pp. 633-639
December 1, 1953
University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1953
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson
Volume 5, No. 36, pp. 633-639
December 1, 1953
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
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1953
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Pleistocene Soricidae from San Josecito Cave,
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
By
JAMES S. FINDLEY
Bones of a large number of vertebrates of Pleistocene age have been removed from San Josecito Cave near Aramberri, Nuevo León, México. These bones have been reported upon in part by Stock (1942) and Cushing (1945). A part of this material, on loan to the University of Kansas from the California Institute of Technology, contains 26 rami and one rostrum of soricid insectivores. Nothing seems to be known of the Pleistocene Soricidae of México. The workers cited do not mention them and no shrews are listed by Maldonado-Koerdell (1948) in his catalog of the Quaternary mammals of México. Comparison of these specimens with pertinent Recent material from México, the United States, and Canada leads me to the conclusion that they represent two genera and at least three species. The material examined is described below.