Sorongo site, El Picache (Miocene of Venezuela)

Also known as Urumaco

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Urumaco Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. M. Scheyer, O. A. Aguilera, M. Delfino, D. C. Fortier, A. A. Carlini, R. Sánchez, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, L. Quiroz, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2013. Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics. Nature Communications 4:1907:1-9 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143516: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Globidentosuchus brachyrostris Scheyer et al. 2013 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-224 - paratype (fragmentary skull remains associated with mandibles)