Rodovia Transamazonica (Miocene of Brazil)

Also known as Acre; BR-364

Where: Acre, Brazil (9.1° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° S, 66.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Solimoes Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1980

Primary reference: J. P. Souza Filho. 1987. Caiman brevirostris sp. nov., un novo Alligatoridae da Formação Solimões (Pleistoceno) do Estado do Acre, Brasil. Anais do X Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia 1:173-180 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144739: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 16.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Caiman brevirostris n. sp. Souza Filho 1987 caiman
UFAC 196 - type (partial skull and lower jaw)
Acresuchus pachytemporalis Souza-Filho et al. 2019 crocodilian
UFAC-6384