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Estudio de un ejemplar de Curvieronius Hyodon hallado en el lecho del Río Nacaome, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

2011; University of Costa Rica; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15517/rgac.v0i11.13009

2215-261X

César A. Laurito Mora,

Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean

This work describes the jaws and dental pieces of a mastodont found in the bedo of the Nacaome River. It is a juvenile specimen of Curvieronius Hyodon (Fischer, 1814), stored at the fossils collection of the "Escuela Centroamericana de Geología de la Universidad de Costa Rica." This species is known as "mountain range mastodont" widely distributed in South America.