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Potosi Mountain, Spring Range

NV: Clark Co.

Age. Late Wisconsin, with ¹⁴C dates ranging from about 16,370 to 10,780 radiocarbon years BP (Mead and Murray 1991).

General Description. Woodrat midden.

Fauna.

Ammospermophilus sp.—Antelope Squirrels (Mead and Murray 1991)
Spermophile—Spermophile (Mead and Murray 1991)

Spermophilus sp.

Chaetodipus/Perognathus sp.—Spiny or Silky Pocket Mice (Mead and Murray 1991)

Perognathus sp.

Microtus sp.—Voles (Mead and Murray 1991)
Neotoma albigula—White-throated Woodrat (Mead and Murray 1991)
Neotoma cinerea—Bushy-tailed Woodrat (Mead and Murray 1991)
Peromyscus sp.—Deer Mice (Mead and Murray 1991)
Reithrodontomys sp.—Harvest Mice (Mead and Murray 1991)
Ochotona princeps—American Pika (Mead and Spaulding 1995)
Odocoileus sp.—Deer (Jefferson et al. 2015)

Literature. Jefferson et al. 2015; Mead and Murray 1991.

Last Update: 2 Apr 2015