DEERS
In Mar de Ajó is so difficult to find fossil evidence of deers. Anyway, the fossils i found are enought to probe that anytime, deers walked in Mar de Ajó.
The deers came to South America form the North, in the early pleistocene, around two million years ago, when both Americas, North and South, joined. Here in the south they specied and grew up, and althought the last glaciation extintion, most of the species still remain alive. As you can see below, i have found (+)Morenelaphus and Ozotoceros fossils.
A: Morenelaphus spp. ,asta de adulto.
B: Morenelaphus spp., asta de macho joven.
C: asta de ciervo sin identificar.
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astragalous.
MOLARS
SHIN BONE
rifht shin bone, lower epiphysis
rear and front views
astragalous and shin bone..
Morenelaphus distal piece right tibia, found by Elías Ezequiel from San Bernardo.
except the first and the
last astragalouses in the pic, the rest are belong to deers. Number 2 taxonomy
is unknown, but the rest seem to belong to Morenelaphus sp.
pleistocene deer astragalous
compared with a cow one.
lower maxillary bone, found by Lic. Parimbelli. lateral, internal and alveolar
views.
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