Also known as Urumaco

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 68.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Urumaco Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• The geological units from which the specimens were obtained are the middle and upper members of the Urumaco Formation of Venezuela. These units have been recently summarized in the Léxico estratigráfico de Venezuela (1997).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; brown, gray claystone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by MCZ (B. Patterson), UCV (J. Royo-Gomez), UNEFM (O. Aguilera), UFAC (J. Bocquetin-Villanueva) and AMU (R. Sanchez) in 1958-2003

Primary reference: J. G. Lundberg and O. A. Aguilera. 2003. The late Miocene Phractocephalus catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from Urumaco, Venezuela: additional specimens and reinterpretation as a distinct species. Neotropical Ichthyology 1(2):97-109 [C. Jaramillo/G. Ballen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136777: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gustavo Ballen on 04.12.2012, edited by Philip Mannion, Evangelos Vlachos and Mark Uhen

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