Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 68.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Upper Member (Urumaco Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Late Miocene, probably encompasses the Chasicoan-Huyquerian South American Land Mammal Ages, approximately 9 Ma. Specimens were found below the Capa de Tortugas in the upper member.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray sandstone
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: D. P. Domning and O. A. Aguilera. 2008. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbeaan Region. VIII. Nanosiren garciae, gen. et sp. nov. and Nanosiren sanchezi, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):479-500 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 81491: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Nanosiren sanchezi n. sp.
Nanosiren sanchezi n. sp. Domning and Aguilera 2008 dugong | |
Actinopteri | |
Bagre sp. Mitchill 1815 Ariid catfish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
Pristis sp. Linck 1790 sawfish | |
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark |