Late Pleistocene mammals from El Hatillo, Panama

 

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Verfasser: Lucas, Spencer G.
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2014
Beschreibung:Late Pleistocene mammals from the El Hatillo locality on the Azuero Peninsula in Panama, originally reported by C. L. Gazin in 1957, are documented here for the first time. The following taxa are present: Hoplophorinae?, Glyptotherium floridanum, Eremotherium laurillardi, Paramylodon harlani, Equus conversidens, Platygonus sp., Odocoileus sp., Mixotoxodon larensis and Cuvieronius hyodon. This is a characteristic assemblage of late Pleistocene mammals from Central America that is dominated by fossils of Eremotherium in association with fossils of Mixotoxodon and Equus. I refer to such associations as EME assemblages and posit that most of these assemblages from Central America are of Late Pleistocene age. EME assemblages represent a mixed fauna of grazers and browsers that was common across Central America during one or more of the Late Pleistocene interstadials.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprache:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/15120
Online Zugang:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/15120
Stichwort:Fossil mammals
Eremotherium
Mixotoxodon
Equus
Panamá
Pleistocene
Mamíferos fósiles
Pleistoceno