Moose fossil remains by one mastodon The entire Pleistocene, a geological period that began about 2.58 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, was found by a team of Peruvian paleontologists in Junínsk.
The discovery was made by engineer Oscar Díaz in Quaternary lands in the town of Candaduyoc, Chambará district, Concepción province, where three individuals have been preserved, an unusual amount, the Geological Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Ingemmet) said in a statement.
The mentioned institute advised during the expedition as a managing body paleontology in the country.
One of mastodons It was in a good state of preservation and almost complete, and studies will be able to determine which specific species they belonged to.
In Peru, these primitive relatives of elephants lived mainly on the coast and in the mountains, such as ‘Cuvieronius hyodon’ and ‘Notiomastodon platensis’.
One of the samples found in Chambará (Junín) | Source: Ingemmet
A unique discovery in Peru
Moose mastodons They were large mammals that belonged to the American megafauna of the Pleistocene epoch, including the gomphotheriid family (‘Gomphotheriidae’), many of which were migrants from North America when the Isthmus of Panama formed, Ingemmet said.
This entity emphasized that the discovery is unique in Peru and ranks the Chambará district as one of paleontological sites the most important in the country.
Specialist in vertebrate fossils from the Ingemmet project “Management and promotion of the Paleontological Heritage of Peru”, Iván Meza participated in the consultation of the discovery with the mayor of the Chambará district, Ciro Quispe; the president of the Chambará community, Raúl Rivera, and the person responsible for the discovery.
The focus was on the desert coast of Peru paleontological findings In recent years, the latest is a 199-tonne cetacean released in August last year in Ice, called Perucetus colossus. (With information from EFE)
