jqrichmond's Identifications

waiting on the date. I'm leaning gilberti but my first thought was skiltonianus.

Observation collected by Bill Sloan, Death Valley National Park wildlife biologist.

36.24661, -117.07641.
11S 0493135E 4011304N
The skink was living in a wash west/south of the parking lot at the charcoal kilns. It was living in the soil layer below the charcoal layer, around 20 inches down on the side of the cutout. From the Munsell scale, it was in 7.5YR 3/1, very dark gray soil.