Abstract

LAURITO, César A.; VALERIO, Ana L.  and  ROJAS-SIBAJA, Nefertiti. The underwater mastodon: the record of Cuvieronius hyodon Fischer (1814) at the inner pacific continental shelf of Costa Rica, caletas beach, Guanacaste province. Rev. Geol. Amér. Central [online]. 2016, n.55, pp.137-146. ISSN 0256-7024.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rgac.v55i0.27069.

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.

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

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