1. Primeira ocorrência de Gomphotheriidae no município de Irauçuba, Ceará, Brasil
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Maria Somália Sales Viana, Édison Vicente Oliveira, and Gina Cardoso de Oliveira
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010506 paleontology ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,biology ,Pleistocene ,Paleontology ,Xenarthra ,biology.organism_classification ,01 natural sciences ,Archaeology ,Cave ,Erosion ,Notoungulata ,Geology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Occurrences of gomphotheres in northeastern Brazil there are in tank deposits, caves and lagoons and many of these records are from the Pleistocene tank deposits, formed by physical and chemical erosion in crystalline rock. These deposits are common in northwestern of State of Ceara and correspond to the most Pleistocene fossil findings. This paper presents the description of two specimens of gomphotheres identified as Gomphotheriidae constituting an unprecedented record for the City of Iraucuba, Ceara, located 150 km from Fortaleza. In the same place, Xenarthra, Liptoterna, Notoungulata and Perissodactyla were also found.
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- 2015
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