Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 68.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-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
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 147464: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.07.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hesperogavialis cruxenti Bocquentin Villanueva and Buffetaut 1981 crocodilian AMU-CURS-132 (rostrum)
Gryposuchus cf. pachakamue1 Salas-Gismondi et al. 2016 crocodilian AMU-CURS-012 (cranium and mandible)
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Globidentosuchus brachyrostris Scheyer et al. 2013 crocodilian AMU-CURS-301 (posterior part of right mandible with four crushing teeth) and AMU-CURS-450 (partial mandibular remains)
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