In the city of Candaduyoc, Junín region, Peruvian researchers made a surprising paleontological discovery, they found the remains of mastodon fossils from the Pleistocene period. Advice on the discovery was provided by the Geological Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Ingemmet).
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A team of researchers, led by engineer Óscar Díaz Illescas and composed of local scientists and residents of the area, unearthed the mastodon remains from the mountain range on the advice of biologist Iván Meza Vélez, the project’s vertebrate fossil specialist. .
Mastodons were large mammals that belonged to the American megafauna of the Pleistocene epoch (2.58 Ma to 11,700 years ago), including the gomphotherid family (Gomphotheriidae). According to Ingemmet, this discovery will allow us to more precisely study the species to which the found fossils belong.
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In Peru, these primitive relatives of elephants lived mainly on the coast and in the mountains, such as Cuvieronius hyodon and Notiomastodon platensis.
It is the only find of this Pleistocene animal in Peru, and therefore ranks the Chambará district among the most important paleontological sites in the country.
