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Spotting

Description:

Partial skull with large incisors and tufts of gray fur found in lawn in area with lots of nut trees (but not forest) in Northern California. About 1.5-2 inches front to back.

Habitat:

Lawn at rural/urban edge near scattered trees and nut groves.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Botta's Pocket Gopher
Thomomys bottae


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1 Comment

GeoffreyPalmer
GeoffreyPalmer 10 years ago

Neat find! This looks like a pocket gopher skull to me and I also think all of the gray matted fur indicates that this skull was part of an owl pellet. Very cool.

JeanneRewa
Spotted by
JeanneRewa

California, USA

Spotted on Mar 8, 2014
Submitted on Mar 9, 2014

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