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Plant Remains in Some Coprolites from Utah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Eric O. Callen  and
Paul S. Martin
Eric O. Callen
Affiliation:
McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Paul S. Martin
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Abstract

The plant content of coprolites from the Glen Canyon region of southern Utah, as determined by phosphate analysis, is compared with the pollen analysis of other pieces of the same coprolites. The authors conclude that the pollen analysis definitely supplements the information obtained from the other source, and the material studied revealed the unsuspected presence of Cleome.

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American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , July 1969 , pp. 329 - 331
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1969

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