The "tambla" (Humuya) gomphothere (Honduras): the first report of fossil vertebrates in Central America
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RGAC34512023-04-26T01:59:09Z The "tambla" (Humuya) gomphothere (Honduras): the first report of fossil vertebrates in Central America The "tambla" (Humuya) gomphothere (Honduras): the first report of fossil vertebrates in Central America Lucas, Spencer G. Bonta, Mark Rogers, Robert Alvarado, Guillermo E. Honduras Tambla Humuya gonfoterio mastodonte gomphothere mastodon In 1858, American geologist Joseph LeConte published the first scientific report of vertebrate fossils (mastodon, bison and horse) from Central America a brief record of a "mastodon bed" near the old village of Tambla in Honduras. In 1859, American archaeologist Ephraim George Squier also mentioned these fossils, illustrating a lower jaw fragment with a molar and providing specific clues to the location of the bonebed. J. M. Dow subsequently gave a gomphothere molar from the locality to Joseph Leidy at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, USA. Leidy published on the fossil, which still remains in the collection of the Academy, as ?Mastodon ohioticus? or as M. andium, and it was later referred to Rhynchotherium by Osborn and others. This molar is best identified as Cuvieronius hyodon, and the bonebed from which it was derived is near the modern village of Humuya (Tambla in the 1800s), not near the village currently called Tambla. The Tambla ?mastodon bed? has never been relocated, though data provided here should make that possible. Its discovery in the 1850s did not encourage further exploration for vertebrate fossils in Honduras, probably because ?mastodon? fossils were already commonplace in the USA, so the Tambla bonebed did not constitute a remarkable discovery. . Universidad de Costa Rica 2011-02-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Text Article application/pdf https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/3451 10.15517/rgac.v0i44.3451 Revista geológica de América central; Vol. 44 (2011) Revista geológica de América central; Vol. 44 (2011) 2215-261X 0256-7024 eng https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/3451/3354 Derechos de autor 2014 Revista Geológica de América Central |
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Lucas, Spencer G. Bonta, Mark Rogers, Robert Alvarado, Guillermo E. |
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The "tambla" (Humuya) gomphothere (Honduras): the first report of fossil vertebrates in Central America |
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The "tambla" (Humuya) gomphothere (Honduras): the first report of fossil vertebrates in Central America |
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The "tambla" (Humuya) gomphothere (Honduras): the first report of fossil vertebrates in Central America |
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Universidad de Costa Rica |
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