Cueva del Guácharo (Pleistocene to of Venezuela)

Where: Monagas, Venezuela (10.2° N, 62.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 62.5° W)

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When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• The chronology of these fossi1s is not yet determined, but the presence of Desmodus draculae and Diphylla ecaudata in cave strata have led to the assumption of late Pleistocene to earIy Holocene age (MORGANet al. 1988).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; paleosol/pedogenic lithology not reported

• The fossil remains studied were found in a paleosoil in Galeria del Chorro, immediately after the passage Paso del Viento.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: L. H. Soibelzon and A. D. Rincón. 2007. The fossil record of the short-faced bears (Ursidae, Tremarctinae) from Venezuela. Systematic, biogeographic, and paleoecological implications. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 244:287-298 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145377: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 02.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctotherium wingei
Arctotherium wingei Ameghino 1902 bear