Keywords
Lamini
Hemiauchenia vera
Costa Rica
Upper Miocene
Curré Formation
Camelidae
Lamini
Hemiauchenia vera
Costa Rica
Mioceno Superior
Formación Curré.
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Abstract
This work describes abundant fossil remains of a species of lamine camel, recovered from the San Gerardo de Limoncito local fauna in southern Costa Rica. The material corresponds to dental pieces and postcranial bones of Hemiauchenia vera Matthew, 1909 species, which is basically recognized by the biometry of the astragali and the anterior phalanx I, besides dental morphology. This new fossil record also permits to accurate the biochronologic age of the outcrop and its correlation with other Early Hemphillian localities of North America.References
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