Description of the most complete skeleton of Stegomastodon (Mammalia, Gomphotheriidae) recorded for the Mexican Late Pleistocene

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-255

  Alberdi, María Teresa ^a   Juárez Woo, Javier ^b   Polaco, Oscar J ^c   Arroyo Cabrales, Joaquín ^c  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b Museo de Paleontología de Guadalajara Federico A Solórzano Barreto   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chapala; Distribution; Gomphotheriidae; Jalisco; Late pleistocene; Mexico; Stegomastodon; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKELETON; SKULL; TOOTH;

LAKE CHAPALA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

GOMPHOTHERIIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 75449085342     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0251-0239     Document Type: Article

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