1.5 km Northwest of Cerro Chiguaje (Miocene to of Venezuela)

Also known as Codore, El jebe member

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.3° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 69.4° W)

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• local area-level geographic resolution

When: El Jebe Member (Codore Formation), Messinian to Messinian (7.2 - 3.6 Ma)

• This collection had a Pliocene age attached. However: The Codore formation is divided into three formal members: El Jebe, Chiguaje, and Algodones. The El Jebe and Algodones Members were deposited in a fluvial environment, whereas the Chiguaje Member represents a marine transgression (Quiroz and Jaramillo, 2010) and records cetaceans (Aguirre-Fernández et al., 2017a; 2017b). The age of the Codore Formation is regarded as late Miocene to early Pliocene based on the presence of the palynomorph Echitricolporites spinosus (Hambalek et al., 1994; Quiroz and Jaramillo, 2010). The contact of the underlying Urumaco Formation and the Codore Formation is at ca. 6 Ma according to Smith et al. (2010). Foraminiferans of the Chiguaje Member are indicative of the early to middle Pliocene (ca. 4–3 Ma; Smith et al., 2010:fig. 2).

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; brown sandstone

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Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Carlini, D. Brandoni, and R. Sánchez. 2006. First Megatheriines (Xenarthra, Phyllophaga, Megatheriidae) from the Urumaco (late Miocene) and Codore (Pliocene) Formations, Estado Falcón, Venezuela. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 4(3):269-278 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163860: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 18.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Proeremotherium eljebe n. gen. n. sp.
Proeremotherium eljebe n. gen. n. sp. Carlini et al. 2006 edentate