Revista geológica de América central ISSN Impreso: 0256-7024 ISSN electrónico: 2215-261X

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Late Pleistocene mammals from El Hatillo, Panama
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Keywords

Fossil mammals
Eremotherium
Mixotoxodon
Equus
Panamá
Pleistocene
Mamíferos fósiles
Eremotherium
Mixotoxodon
Equus
Panamá
Pleistoceno

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Lucas, S. G. (2014). Late Pleistocene mammals from El Hatillo, Panama. Revista geológica De América Central, 50, 139–151. https://doi.org/10.15517/rgac.v0i50.15120

Abstract

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.
https://doi.org/10.15517/rgac.v0i50.15120
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