Pipeline Locality, Urumaco (Miocene of Venezuela)

Also known as 350 m N from kilometre 157 of the Pipeline

Where: Falcón, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 68.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Urumaco Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Middle Member of the Urumaco Formation, late Miocene, 10-9 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Patterson in 1972

Primary reference: R. Salas-Gismondi, J. W. Moreno-Bernal, T. M. Scheyer, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, and C. Jaramillo. 2019. New Miocene Caribbean gavialoids and patterns of longirostry in crocodylians. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(12):1049-1075 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196742: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Aktiogavialis caribesi n. sp. Salas-Gismondi et al. 2019 crocodilian
MCNC 95-72V - type