Cueva de Rio Oro (Pleistocene of Venezuela)

Where: Falcón, Venezuela (10.8° N, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 68.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• late Pleistocene mammalian remains were recovered from the fl oor of the cave (Rincón, 2003; Rincón & White, 2007)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204069: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 30.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassu pecari Link 1795 white-lipped peccary
Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary