Right bank of Rio Urumaco, 1.5 (?) km N of El Hatillo? (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.3° 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: terrestrial; mudstone and shale

• Laminated mudstone/shale

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 183010: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2016, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Gavialoidea indet.
Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
UNEFM-CIAAP-1368 - "large crocodylian teeth belonging to large gharial"
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Purussaurus sp., Mourasuchus sp.
Purussaurus sp. Barbosa Rodrigues 1892 crocodilian
UNEFM-CIAAP-1367, 1368 and 1372
Mourasuchus sp. Price 1964 crocodilian
UNEFM-CIAAP-1378
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Podocnemididae indet.
Podocnemididae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle
UNEFM-CIAPP 139, poorly preserved skull