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|  | Generations of burrow fill. Most burrows are of mole-rats. The photograph was taken near Voronezh, Russia, an area that has not be covered by the last glaciation. Photo: E. Ponomarenko. | |||||||||
| Identifying the animal |Infill | ||||||||||
| Where different generations of burrow infill can be recognized, their fossil content can also be interpreted at a finer temporal scale. Burns (1996) studied a fossil prairie dog town, where the age of individual tunnels ranged from 33650 to 22000 years. The infill varied from subaqueous to aeolian in origin. | ||||||||||