3.5 km N and 3? W of El Picache on up side of Chiguaje Fault (Miocene of Venezuela)

Also known as Urumaco

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; brown, gray claystone and sandstone

• The paleoenvironments are interpreted as inner sub-littoral and coastal lagoon enviroments with riverine and estuarine influence (Díaz de Gamero, 1996).
• The middle member of the Urumaco Formation consists of claystone and sand. The gray claystone is microfossiliferous, and the brown claystone contains vertebrate remains such as reptiles, mammals, marine and freshwater fish, and also coprolites and wood (Díaz de Gamero & Linares, 1989). The limestone changes from conchiferous sandstones to consolidated coquina limestone. In the lower half of this middle member, an abundant and diverse marine mollusk fauna exists in a sandy matrix. This matrix also contains elasmobranch teeth and teleostean otoliths.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. M. Scheyer and M. Delfino. 2016. The late Miocene caimanine fauna (Crocodylia: Alligatoroidea) of the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela. Palaeontologia Electronica 19(3):48A:1-57 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183008: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Mourasuchus sp., Purussaurus sp.
Mourasuchus sp. Price 1964 crocodilian
MCNC-URU-110-72V
Purussaurus sp. Barbosa Rodrigues 1892 crocodilian
MCNC-URU-111-72V