Also known as Urumaco
Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.4° N, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 68.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• 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; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.M. Cruxent in 1978
Primary reference: J. Bocquentin Villanueva and E. Buffetaut. 1981. Hesperogavialis cruxenti n.gen., n. sp., nouveau Gavialide (Crocodylia, Eusuchia) du Miocene Superieur (Huayquerien) d'Urumaco (Venezuela). Geobios 14(3):415-419 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143518: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hesperogavialis cruxenti n. gen. n. sp.
Hesperogavialis cruxenti n. gen. n. sp. Bocquentin Villanueva and Buffetaut 1981 crocodilian MHC 320 - holotype (partial maxilla); referred material: MHC 319 (incomplete mandible probably from the same individual as the holotype)
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"Mourasuchus nativus" = Mourasuchus arendsi1 Bocquentin Villanueva 1984 crocodilian AMU-CURS-212 (cranial fragment)
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