Primeros datos sobre el esqueleto postcraneal de Protapirus cetinensis (Tapiridae)
The tapirid species Protapirus cetinensis was recently described upon a few dentary remains coming from the sites of Cetina de Aragón (Zaragoza) y Valquemado (Cuenca). The excavation carried out in summer 1987 in Valquemado has yielded the first postcraneal element of Tapiridae from the Spanish Lowe...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1988 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Huelva (UHU) |
| Repositorio: | Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/18384 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18384 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Postcraneal skeleton Protapirus cetinensis Tapiridae Lower Miocene Valquemado Spain |
| Sumario: | The tapirid species Protapirus cetinensis was recently described upon a few dentary remains coming from the sites of Cetina de Aragón (Zaragoza) y Valquemado (Cuenca). The excavation carried out in summer 1987 in Valquemado has yielded the first postcraneal element of Tapiridae from the Spanish Lower Miocene. lt is a third metatarsal of a young individual that lacks the distal epiphysis. lt is a very long bone that shows a very greater gracility than the extant Tapirus terrestris, the only species we have some direct data. P. aginensis from La Milloque (Francia) is also a slender tapir but the metapode we have studied is not homologous to that of Valquemado |
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