PBDB Collection

Northwest of San Rafael (Miocene of Venezuela)

Also known as Urumaco

Where: Falcon, 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; mudstone

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 147465: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.07.2013, edited by Juan Carrillo

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae	Phoberomys sp.¹, Neoepiblema sp.¹ Phoberomys sp.¹ Kraglievich 1926 caviomorph AMU-CURS 380, 382 Neoepiblema sp.¹ Ameghino 1889 caviomorph AMU-CURS 381
Reptilia
Crocodylia - Alligatoridae	Purussaurus sp., Purussaurus cf. mirandai², Mourasuchus sp.², Globidentosuchus brachyrostris Purussaurus sp. Barbosa Rodrigues 1892 crocodilian AMU-CURS-384 (left mandible), AMU-CURS-390 (mandibular fragment), and AMU-CURS-394 Purussaurus cf. mirandai² Aguilera et al. 2006 crocodilian AMU-CURS-528 Mourasuchus sp.² Price 1964 crocodilian AMU-CURS-395, 396, 530 and 537 Globidentosuchus brachyrostris Scheyer et al. 2013 crocodilian AMU-CURS-383 (cranium and mandibles)
Crocodylia - Gavialidae	Gryposuchus sp. Gryposuchus sp. Gürich 1912 crocodilian AMU-CURS-399 (cranial fragments)

¹Carrillo and Sánchez-Villagra 2015; ²Scheyer and Delfino 2016