Nuevos registros de cérvidos poco conocidos: Epieuryceros cf. proximus Castellanos y Antifer sp. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Cervidae).

ALCARAZ, M. A.; ZURITA, A. E.

Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2004 vol. 6 p. 41 - 48

1514-5158

Abstract. New records of cervids poorly known:  Epieuryceros  cf. proximus Castellanos and  Antifer sp. Ameghino (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Cervidae). In this paper we report, out of the pampean area,   the finding  of two poorly known Cervidae: Epieuryceros cf.  proximus, coming from the  Toropí Formation (middle Pleistocene) in the Corrientes province, and Antifer sp., found in the middle Pleistocene-early Holocene of  Formosa province. The record of E. cf. proximus (the second one of this taxa),  is congruent with the signaled age for the Toropí Formation . In addition, we make a discussion about the actual situation of the systematic aspects of the  species belonging to the family Cervidae.   Finally, and from a paleozoogeographycal point of view, these reports represent the most septentrional limit, in Argentina, for both taxa.