Where: Falcón, 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 144595: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 13.05.2013, edited by Juan Carrillo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Globidentosuchus brachyrostris n. gen. n. sp. Scheyer et al. 2013 crocodilian AMU-CURS-222 - holotype (an almost complete skull with associated mandibles)
Purussaurus sp. Barbosa Rodrigues 1892 crocodilian AMU-CURS unnumbered (cranium and mandibular remains)
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