Primeros datos sobre el esqueleto postcraneal de Protapirus cetinensis (Tapiridae)

• María Esperanza Cerdeño Serrano ^[1]
  1. [1] Geociencias. Medio-Ambiente
• Localización: Geogaceta, ISSN 0213-683X, Nº. 5, 1988, págs. 21-24
• Idioma: español
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  • 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.

    Jt 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 sorne direct data. P. aginensis from la Milfoque (Francia) is also a slender tapir but the metapode we have studied is not homologous to that of Valque