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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Tayassu pecari Link 1795 white-lipped peccary
Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary |