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SUBMITTER: Guerrero-Arenas R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7067467 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guerrero-Arenas Rosalía R Jiménez-Hidalgo Eduardo E Genise Jorge Fernando JF
PloS one 20200312 3
We describe a new complex burrow system produced by geomyids in southern Mexico. Yaviichnus inyooensis igen. isp. nov. is composed of main large chambers near the top of the paleosol, from which shafts showing different morphologies and orientations radiate, some of them ending in or connected to small deeper chambers. Gregorymys spp. is proposed as the producer based on its fossorial habits, abundance in the outcrops, presence of remains inside the burrows, and paired grooves in the walls, whic ...[more]