I THINK I know what it is, but I'd like a second opinion.
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Beaver is usually flatter in profile along the top of the skull; this one lookes like the frontal bones at a different cant than the rostrum. Could be the angle of the photo.
Based on length and profile I suspect porcupine, but I don't know where the skull came from. Just a guess without more photos, though.
I hadn't thought about a porcupine. I thought it was a woodchuck. It's NOT a beaver. I've got some lower jaw pics too. I'll get them on here.
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Rick Brinkman wrote:This was found at the -240' level in a cave.
I was getting at what part of the country was it found - MT?
Don't think it's a woodchuck, but the dental formula from pics will give me the info I need. I remain with my porcupine guess. I'm from non-porcupine country but I had a porcupine skull in my mammalogy lab collection that I used to throw out when I set up lab practicals just out of meanness...