Note about an inmature specimen Gomphotherium sp. from Late Miocene of Chiapas, Mexico

It is described a premolar and an upper incisor fragment belonging to longirostrine gomphothere discovered in the Puente Ixcan locality (Late Miocene), Maravilla Tenejapa municipality, at the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. Based on the morphology, measures and geographic range, we assigned the s...

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Autores: Gómez-Pérez, Luis E., Carbot-Chanona, Gerardo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/32851
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/32851
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Mammalia
Proboscidea
Ghomphoteriidae
longirrostrino
dentición deciduo
México
longirrostrine
deciduous dentition
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Resumo:It is described a premolar and an upper incisor fragment belonging to longirostrine gomphothere discovered in the Puente Ixcan locality (Late Miocene), Maravilla Tenejapa municipality, at the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. Based on the morphology, measures and geographic range, we assigned the specimen to Gomphotherium genus. This is the southernmost record of Gomphotherium in Mexico, and because of the proximity to Central America contributes to the knowledge of the paleobiogeographical distribution of longirostrine gomphotheres in this region.