Tomato
Tomayate is a paleontological site and excavation site on the banks of the river of the same name in the municipality of Apopa in the department of San Salvador . The paleontological site of the megafauna was assigned to the geological time scale of the Pleistocene .
This palaeontological treasure was discovered by chance by Teófilo Reyes Chavarría in 2000 when he found a giant tooth of an elephant-sized megatherium , a glacial sloth of South America, in the Tomayate river basin. Further excavations revealed an almost complete lower jaw of a Proboscidea and Cuvieronius . The finds were assigned to the Pleistocene, which began 2.6 million years ago and ended about 12,000 years ago.
Tomayate is considered to be one of the most important paleontological sites of vertebrate animals in Central America.
Individual evidence
- ^ JC Cisneros: New Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from El Salvador. In: Revista Brasileira de Paleontología. Nº 8. pp. 239-255. (PDF; 2.1 MB)
- ↑ Report in the archaeological edition of Investiga magazine (PDF; 39.0 MB)
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Coordinates: 13 ° 48 ′ 23.2 " N , 89 ° 11 ′ 20.2" W.