Where: Lara, Venezuela (10.4° N, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 66.4° W)

When: Castillo Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• The lithology of the Cerro La Cruz sequence consists of alternating packages of siliciclastic and carbonate sediments, deposited principally in a near-shore marine environment (subtidal shallow marine, intertidal near mangroves), with episodes of continental environments of appar- ently short duration (see Rincon et al., 2014, for details).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, muddy, silty mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. D. Rincón, A. Solórzano, H. G. McDonald and M. Nuñez- Flores. 2016. Baraguatherium takumara, gen. et sp. nov., the earliest Mylodontoid sloth (Early Miocene) from Northern South America. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 23:1-23 [A. Rincon/A. Rincon/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199712: authorized by Ascanio Rincon, entered by Ascanio Rincon on 07.02.2019, edited by Mark Uhen

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