Norte El Picache (Miocene of Venezuela)

Also known as North of El Picache

Where: Falcón, Venezuela (11.3° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Urumaco Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. M. Scheyer and M. Delfino. 2016. The late Miocene caimanine fauna (Crocodylia: Alligatoroidea) of the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela. Palaeontologia Electronica 19(3):48A:1-57 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207049: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 17.12.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Caimaninae indet., Purussaurus sp., Purussaurus cf. mirandai, Purussaurus mirandai
Caimaninae indet. Brochu 1999 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-601
Purussaurus sp. Barbosa Rodrigues 1892 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-606
Purussaurus cf. mirandai Aguilera et al. 2006 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-602
Purussaurus mirandai Aguilera et al. 2006 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-541