El Breal de Orocual (Pliocene to of Venezuela)

Also known as ORS-20 pit

Where: Monagas, Venezuela (9.8° N, 63.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 63.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mesa Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithology not reported and tar

• The faunal assemblage suggests that the El Breal de Orocual paleoenvironment were savannahs.
• This deposit has been interpreted as a tar seep deposit lying in the Mesa Formation (Hackley et al., 2006), a unit that consists of fluvio-deltaic strata.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Montellano-Ballesteros, A. D. Rincon, and A. Solorzano. 2014. Record of tayassuids in ?Late Pliocene to Quaternary deposits in Venezuela. Revista brasileira de Paleontologia 17(2):169-182 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204068: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 30.08.2019, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassu pecari
Tayassu pecari Link 1795 white-lipped peccary
 Carnivora - Canidae
Aenocyon dirus, Theriodictis sp.
Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf
ORS20 418, partial left hemimandible; ORS20 419, incomplete right hemimandible; ORS20 420, fragment of left hemimandible; ORS20 418 and 419
Theriodictis sp. Mercerat 1891 canine
ORS20 266, Ruiz-Ramoni 2016 listed it as "Canis"