Urumaco, Biozona 1 Loc 44-FU (Miocene of Venezuela)

Also known as Linares Nivel fosil 9

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 67.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inferior Member (Urumaco Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• M. Miocene, Laventan.

Environment/lithology: delta front; sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. J. Linares

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: O. J. Linares. 2004. Bioestratigrafia de la fauna de mamíferos de las Formaciones Socorro, Urumaco y Codore (Mioceno medio - Plioceno temprno)de la región de Urumaco, Falcon, Venezuela. Paleobiologia Neotropical 1:1-26 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146407: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 25.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
  - Mylodontidae
Mylodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 edentate
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
cf. Olenopsis sp. Ameghino 1889 caviomorph