Also known as Nueva Union
Where: Maynas, Peru (4.3° S, 73.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 70.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: MZ9 or MZ10 other zone, Pebas Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• late Middle Miocene; “upper lignite”
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; sandstone and silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2002-2013
Primary reference: R. Salas-Gismondi, J. J. Flynn, P. Baby, J. V. Tejada-Lara, F. P. Wesselingh and P.-O. Antoine. 2015. A Miocene hyperdiverse crocodylian community reveals peculiar trophic dynamics in proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 282:20142490 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166770: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 26.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Purussaurus sp. Barbosa Rodrigues 1892 crocodilian MUSM 2426, ten associated teeth; MUSM 2262, giant tooth
Mourasuchus sp. Price 1964 crocodilian MUSM 2427, left jugal; MUSM 2428, osteoderm; MUSM 2429, distal femur
Gnatusuchus pebasensis Salas-Gismondi et al. 2015 crocodilian MUSM 2393, posterior portion of right mandible
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