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1 December 2012 Équidos y Gonfoterios del Pleistoceno Tardío del Sudeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
José Luis Prado, Maria Teresa Alberdi, Vicente José Di Martino
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Abstract

EQUIDS AND GOMPHOTHERES FROM THE LATE PLEISTOCENE OF SOUTHEASTERN OF BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE. The fossil mammal localities of El Conglomerado, Cascada Paleolama, and Rocas Chicas (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) are poorly known. This paper describes the best-preserved specimens of equids (Perissodactyla) and gomphotheres (Proboscidea) stored at the Municipal Museum of Natural Sciences of Monte Hermoso city. The comparative study with other horses and gomphotheres, mainly from different localities of South America, mostly Argentina and Brazil, allowed to identify them as Hippidion principale (Lund), Hippidion devillei (Gervais), Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus Lund, and Stegomastodon platensis (Ameghino). A sample of S. platensis enamel of M2 from El Conglomerado was dated by AMS 14C 17,600 ± 135 years AP, while a sample of E. (A.) neogeus enamel of M1 from Cascada Paleolama gave an age of 14,020 ± 60 years AP. The data presented here are consistent with a lapse of time dominated by fauna adapted to arid and cold conditions.

José Luis Prado, Maria Teresa Alberdi, and Vicente José Di Martino "Équidos y Gonfoterios del Pleistoceno Tardío del Sudeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires," Ameghiniana 49(4), 623-641, (1 December 2012). https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.28.4.2011.559
Received: 13 December 2010; Accepted: 1 April 2011; Published: 1 December 2012
KEYWORDS
Equidae
Equus (Amerhippus)
Hippidion
Late Pleistocene. Argentina
Pleistoceno tardío. Argentina
Proboscidae
Proboscidea
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