Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.3° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 68.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Urumaco Formation), Huayquerian (8.0 - 5.0 Ma)
• Bondesio and Bocquentin Villanueva 1988: material colectado en los sedimentos de la "Capa de huesos"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Bondesio and J. Bocquentin Villanueva. 1988. Novedosos restos de Neoepiblemidae (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) del Mioceno tardio de Venezuela. Inferencias paleoambientales. Ameghiniana 25(1):31-37 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 203984: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 29.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Phoberomys sp. Kraglievich 1926 caviomorph CIAAP-1449 (but see Bondesio and J. Bocquentin Villanueva 1988)
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