EL MASTODONTE BAJO EL AGUA: EL REGISTRO DE CUVIERONIUS HYODON FISCHER (1814) EN LA PLATAFORMA CONTINENTAL INTERNA DEL PACÍFICO DE COSTA RICA, PLAYA CALETAS, PROVINCIA DE GUANACASTE.

A molar of mastodon recovered from the inner continental shelf of the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica is described. This find, represents the first fossil evidence of a terrestrial mammal that inhabited the continental shelf when it was a dry land, during the Last Glacial Maximun at the Late Pleistocene in Central America and the Caribbean Region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]