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@bonesandbugs @UCSC_PGL I received samples from Jenny McGuire @JennyMcGPhD last week. They are small bones collected from Natural Trap Cave in Wyoming (#ntcave16 etc). This is the site where Julie Meachen @SaberCatWoman and her team (including me!) have been digging for the past five summers. 2/x
@bonesandbugs @UCSC_PGL @JennyMcGPhD @SaberCatWoman They've been sorting through all of the fossil bones, but some couldn't be identified by morphology alone. These include many broken bones (esp. of small vertebrates) & some ear bones (petrous or petrosals). Petrosals are hard & often are great sources for ancient DNA (aDNA). 3/x
