El mastodonte bajo el agua: el registro de Cuvieronius hyodon Fischer (1814) en la plataforma continental interna del pacífico de Costa Rica, playa Caletas, provincia de Guanacaste

Revista Geologica de America Central

Laurito, César A.¹  Valerio, Ana L.²  Rojas-Sibaja, Nefertiti² 

[1] Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje, CR;Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, CR

关键词: Mammalia;    Proboscidea;    Gomphotheriidae;    Pacific Continental Shelf;    Late Pleistocene;    Costa Rica..;   

DOI  :  10.15517/rgac.v55i0.27069

学科分类：地质学

来源: Universidad de Costa Rica * Editorial

【 摘 要 】

A molar of mastodon recovered from the inner continental shelf of the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica is described. This find, represents the first fossil evidence of a terrestrial mammal that inhabited the continental shelf when it was a dry land, during the Last Glacial Maximun at the Late Pleistocene in Central America and the Caribbean Region.

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