On 15 February, the workers responsible for building the new plant Andean waters in the town of Padre Hurtado (Santiago) encountered during the excavations with a bone, which fortunately was not human. It was too big for that. Clearing a bit more, they realized that it was a cutting diameter of 16 cm belonging to some sort of mastodon, but not only that, but the piece was attached to the corresponding complete skull of the animal. The fossil provides the skull with two tusks and four molars. Each defense (or incisor) has a total length of 1.2 meters, each wheel is about 23 inches and was found about six feet deep. It is not yet possible to determine the kind of gonfotéridos to which he belonged, and is estimated to have inhabited the Earth by a wide margin ranging from 10 thousand years ago and up to two million 700 thousand years.
"is the first complete, articulated skull is in Chile. At this time there was no skull recovered in such good condition, only fragments were found," he told La Tercera Rafael Labarca, archaeologist and expert section Ecology and Environment of the PDI, by extraction of the fossil.
Once completed the field phase will analyze the structure to more accurately determine which animal belongs to and how long lived on Earth. And finally pass to the Natural History Museum. BN
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