Locality 02 San Miguiel (Pleistocene of Venezuela)

Where: Lara, Venezuela (9.9° N, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 69.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; pebbly, green claystone

• "Greenish clay with many pebbles, grading with heavy, ill-sorted or greenish conglomerate with

•many bones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.G. Simpson in 1938-1939; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. Van Frank. 1957. A fossil collection from northern Venezuela. 1. Toxodontidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata). American Museum Novitates 1850:1-38 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145704: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 09.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon larensis
Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957 notoungulate
AMNH 48854