Cucuruchu (Pleistocene of Venezuela)
Where: Venezuela (11.3° N, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 69.6° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
• grey-brown clay, site ranges in total from Miocene to Present (animals from Pleistocene); between 9000 and 16000 BP
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: coprolite
Primary reference: J. M. Cruxent. 1970. Projectile Points with Pleistocene Mammals in Venezuela. Antiquity XLIV(175):223-225 [J. Alroy/K. Sears]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71350: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Karen Sears on 14.03.1999, edited by Juan Carrillo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Glyptotherium cf. cylindricum Brown 1912 glyptodon | |
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Eremotherium rusconii Schaub 1935 edentate | |
"Haplomastodon chimborazi" = Notiomastodon platensis
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