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<taxonomicName id="4C262F865527FFBBFC9EFBCCFAE6FB8E" authority="Russell and Harris, 1986" authorityName="Russell and Harris" authorityYear="1986" box="[864,1353,1119,1144]" class="Mammalia" family="Leporidae" genus="Aztlanolagus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lagomorpha" pageId="3" pageNumber="3" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="agilis">
<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFC9EFBCCFB82FB81" bold="true" box="[864,1069,1119,1143]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">Aztlanolagus agilis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFC7EFB1BFBC9FB56" bold="true" box="[896,1126,1160,1184]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">Referred Specimens</emphasis>
—See Appendix 1.
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<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFC7EFB3BFBA7FB36" bold="true" box="[896,1032,1192,1216]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">Description</emphasis>
—The p3s of
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<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFB5FFB34FAC0FB49" bold="true" box="[1185,1391,1191,1215]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">Aztlanolagus agilis</emphasis>
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are characterized by the presence of five reentrant folds (
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;
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). No extant North American leporid retains this pattern, and among fossil taxa only
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<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFA86FA94FA5FFAE9" bold="true" box="[1400,1520,1287,1311]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">Nekrolagus</emphasis>
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is similar (
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). All specimens identified as
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<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFC4EFADBFBA4FAA9" bold="true" box="[944,1035,1351,1376]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">A. agilis</emphasis>
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exhibit a strongly developed anterointernal fold and a well-developed posterointernal fold (
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) or lake. The presence of a strongly developed anterointernal fold on the p3 distinguishes
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.
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from
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, in which the fold is less developed or absent (
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). The degree of crenulation within individual folds varies among individual specimens from Cathedral Cave.
<tableCitation id="C6A461BE5527FFBBFC9EF9BBFC19F9B6" box="[864,950,1576,1600]" captionStart="Table 1" captionStartId="6.[112,169,225,246]" captionText="Table 1. Variation in the number of major crenulations on the anteroexternal reentrant (AER), posterior wall of the posterointernal reentrant (PW-PIR), and posterior wall of the posteroexternal reentrant (PW-PER) in the p3 of Aztlanolagus agilis from Cathedral Cave, Nevada, by excavated level. (?) = minimum number of major crenulations. Dash (-) = data could not be evaluated. Specimen No. = unique specimen number for locality TMM 43693 (i.e., TMM 43693-1748 is the full number for the first specimen listed below)." pageId="3" pageNumber="3">Table 1</tableCitation>
summarizes the number of major crenulations in the anteroexternal reentrant, along the posterior wall of the posterointernal reentrant, and along the posterior wall of the posteroexternal reentrant. For specimens of
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<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFAADF91BFAC8F956" bold="true" box="[1363,1383,1672,1696]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">A</emphasis>
.
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from Cathedral Cave, the p3 average length is
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(n = 25; SD = 0.23; range = 1.72.8) and average width is
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(n = 25; SD = 0.34; range = 1.22.8). These are slightly larger than average measurements recorded by
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for other localities in the southwestern
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.
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<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFF4EF885FEBEF8DD" bold="true" box="[176,273,1814,1836]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">Figure 3.</emphasis>
The p3 of
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from Cathedral Cave.
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. Occlusal pattern and terminology discussed in text;
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. Left p3 (TMM 43693-1814) of
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sp.
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from Cathedral Cave;
<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFD46F8C2FD65F891" bold="true" box="[696,714,1873,1895]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">C</emphasis>
. Right p3 of
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<emphasis id="B95288175527FFBBFF32F8FDFE87F872" bold="true" box="[204,296,1902,1924]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3">Ochotona</emphasis>
sp.
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exhibiting a fourth reentrant fold (TMM 43693- 1856). Scale bar equals 1 mm.
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Discussion—
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is known from Blancan to late Rancholabrean deposits in the western
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and
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. Records other than Cathedral Cave come from localities within Porcupine Cave, CO (
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,
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), and localities in northern
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, New
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, Arizona, and Texas (
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,
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). Although
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tentatively referred all specimens that they examined to
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<emphasis id="B95288175520FFBCFF8EFC53FF7FFC2E" bold="true" box="[112,208,960,984]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">A. agilis,</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFB729F45520FFBCFF29FC52FEDDFC2E" author="Baxter, C. N." box="[215,370,960,984]" pageId="4" pageNumber="4" refId="ref5575" refString="Baxter, C. N. 2004. Leporidae of the DMNH Velvet Room excavations and Mark's Sink. Pp. 164 - 168 in A. D. Barnosky (ed.). Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene: The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA." type="book" year="2004">Baxter (2004)</bibRefCitation>
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reported Porcupine Cave specimens as
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spp.
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because of variation in tooth size and crenulation patterns.
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Leporid teeth from Cathedral Cave.
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. Enamel pattern and terminology for the p3;
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. Right p3 of
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(TMM 43693-1750) from Cathedral Cave;
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. Left p3
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of
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<emphasis id="B95288175520FFBCFF72FDE9FEC7FD66" bold="true" box="[140,360,634,656]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">Brachylagus idahoensis</emphasis>
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(TMM 43693-1777) from Cathedral Cave;
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. Right p3 of
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<emphasis id="B95288175520FFBCFEB5FD04FDEEFD5B" bold="true" box="[331,577,663,685]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">Brachylagus coloradoensis</emphasis>
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(TMM 43693- 1774) from Cathedral Cave. Scale bars equal 1 mm.
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<emphasis id="B95288175520FFBCFF6EFBB3FEB1FBCE" bold="true" box="[144,286,1056,1080]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">Aztlanolagus</emphasis>
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might be synonymous with
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<emphasis id="B95288175520FFBCFDA2FBB3FD57FBCE" bold="true" box="[604,760,1056,1080]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">Pliopentalagus</emphasis>
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, an extinct leporid known mostly from
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that has five reentrant folds on the p3 (
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,
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). However, until the argument for synonymy is formalized,
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<emphasis id="B95288175520FFBCFF8EFB31FEAEFB4C" bold="true" box="[112,257,1186,1210]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">Aztlanolagus</emphasis>
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should be retained. Taxonomic issues notwithstanding, the disappearance of
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<emphasis id="B95288175520FFBCFDFAFB51FDCEFB2C" bold="true" box="[516,609,1218,1242]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">A. agilis</emphasis>
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is one of the few known late Quaternary small mammal extinctions in continental North America.
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The records of
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from
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presented here represent its first known occurrence in the Great Basin. The only other specimen known from the Great Basin is unnumbered in bulk material from
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,
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, housed at the
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Museum (Jass
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)
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.
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