The underwater Mastodon: The record of Cuvieronius hyodon Fischer (1814) at the Inner Pacific Continental Shelf of Costa Rica, Caletas Beach, Guanacaste Province
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| Natura: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2016 |
| Descrizione: | A molar of mastodon recovered from the inner continental shelf of the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica is described. This found, 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. |
| Stato: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Istituzione: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lingua: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/27069 |
| Accesso online: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/27069 |
| Keyword: | Mammalia Proboscidea Gomphotheriidae Pacific Continental Shelf Late Pleistocene Costa Rica plataforma continental Pacífica Pleistoceno Tardío |