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was found in 1882 by a traveling naturalist of the Museum at Buenos 

 Aires, and the first meagre details regarding the specimen were not 

 given until 1889. The skeleton itself is lost without ever having 

 been studied, but nevertheless poses as a representative of "fossil" 

 man in Argentina and has even given rise to the coining, by Kobelt, 

 of a new human species, the "Homo pliocenicus." The '^Chocori" 

 skeleton was found about the year 1888 by an employee of the La 

 Plata Museum. The first notice of it was not published until nineteen, 

 years later. The remains lay "abandoned on the surface of the ground, 

 partly covered by indurated sand." The "Ovejero" bones were collected 

 at different times by one of the traveling naturalists of the Museum 

 at Buenos Aires. They where found at different levels in wind-blown 

 loess in the proximity of a fair sized river and partly in association 

 with the bones of recent animals. 



The "Tertiary" "Baradero" skeleton lay with most of the bones 

 in their natural relations in eolian loess, about 3 feet deep below the 

 surface. The "Arroyo del Moro" skeleton, which gave rise to the new 

 species of Homo sine meuto, was discovered, the skull protruding from 

 the ground, by a sailor and his wife, and later excavated, at the 

 initiative of a local physician, by the sailor, his half-witted boy and a 

 gardener. The "La Tigra" skull, which resulted in the establishment 

 of Homo pampaeus, also "Tertiary," was found in 1888 by an unscientific 

 employee of the museo La Plata near the arroyo La Tigra. The 

 employee was charged with collecting fossils for the Museum. He 

 went to a point at which some fossil animal bones were previously 

 discovered, excavated in the neighborhood, and among other things 

 found a human skull. This is all we know of the circumstances of the 

 discovery of a specimen which has been given a paramount importance. 

 Another small lot of bones relating to the Homo pampaeus were 

 discovered on and near the surface of some partly denuded ground 

 near Necochea by the above mentioned gardener, and still another 

 by his children. 



The "Diprothomo" (or nearest but one precursor of man) fragment 

 was found by common laborers and for thirteen years lay unnoticed 

 in the Buenos Aires collections. Finally as to the "Tetraprothmo," 

 (the fourth precursor of man, counting backward from the latter), the 

 atlas was brought by an employee of the Museo La Plata for a fossil 

 collecting trip to Monte Hermoso and no details are known of this 

 discovery, even the year of the find being uncertain; while the femur 



