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Title: Pleistocene Soricidae from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Author: James S. Findley

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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

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
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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 Leon, Mexico.
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 Mexico. The workers cited do not mention them
and no shrews are listed by Maldonado-Koerdell (1948) in his catalog of
the Quaternary mammals of Mexico. Comparison of these specimens with
pertinent Recent material from Mexico, 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.

Sorex cinereus Kerr

One right ramus, bearing all three molars but lacking the other teeth
and the tip of the coronoid process, needs close comparison only with
certain of t