Presenica de Hippidion Principale en los acantilados costeros de Mar del Plata (Argentina)

MARIA TERESA ALBERDI; MARCELO ZÁRATE; JOSÉ LUIS PRADO

revista Española de Paleontología

Sociedad Española de Paleontologia

Lugar: Madrid; Año: 2001 vol. 16 p. 1 - 7

0213-6937

A complete skull of Híppidion principale, found in Mar de1 Plata city centre near the beach (Br-renos Aires Province, Argentina), is described. Taxonomic identification is mainly based on skull size, morphology and size of the teeth and presence of the dorsal preorbital fbsse. Morphological changes due to the fosse presence are also discussed. Paleomagnetic or radjometric dating of the stratigraphical sequence was not available, however, based on stratigraphical correlation the fossiliferous leve1 should be placed between I.69 and 0. 1 Ma, at a Pleistocene age