Nuevos restos de un Odontoceti fósil (Mammalia: Cetacea, Physeteroidea) para el Mioceno Tardío de Panamá, América Central
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Vigil, Dioselina I.
Laurito Mora, César Alberto
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Universidad de Costa Rica
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Un fragmento de corona y un diente aislado, inferior y comisural de una ballena de esperma de la Familia Physeteridae son descritos. Los restos dentales fueron colectados en sedimentos batiales superiores de la Formación Chagres (Mioceno Tardío) con fuerte afinidad del Pacifico en la localidad de el poblado de Piña en el litoral caribeño de Panamá.
A fragment of a crown and an isolated lower commissural tooth of a sperm whale of the Family Physetheridae are described. The dental remains were recovered from the upper bathyal sediments of the Chagres Formation (late Miocene), with a strong Pacific affinity in the locality of the Piña Town in the Caribbean littoral of Panama.
A fragment of a crown and an isolated lower commissural tooth of a sperm whale of the Family Physetheridae are described. The dental remains were recovered from the upper bathyal sediments of the Chagres Formation (late Miocene), with a strong Pacific affinity in the locality of the Piña Town in the Caribbean littoral of Panama.
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Mammalia, Cetacea, Physetheridae, Mioceno Tardío, Formación Chagres, Panamá, Mammalia, Cetacea, Physetheridae, Late Miocene, Chagres Formation, Panama