Puente Río Urumaco/Playa Larga (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone and shale

• Laminated mudstone/shale

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 147463: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Hesperogavialis cruxenti, Ikanogavialis gameroi
Hesperogavialis cruxenti Bocquentin Villanueva and Buffetaut 1981 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-001 (cranium and rostrum)
Ikanogavialis gameroi Sill 1970 crocodilian
MCN-URU-2002- unnumbered (cranium and rostrum)
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Caimaninae indet., Caimaninae indet., "Mourasuchus nativus" = Mourasuchus arendsi, Globidentosuchus brachyrostris
Caimaninae indet. Brochu 1999 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-113 (cranium)
Caimaninae indet. Brochu 1999 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-217 (cranium)
"Mourasuchus nativus" = Mourasuchus arendsi Bocquentin Villanueva 1984 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-218 (cranium)
Globidentosuchus brachyrostris Scheyer et al. 2013 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-067