Also known as Jurua River, Río Juruá
Where: Brazil (7.7° S, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 70.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Solimoes Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• The outcrops along the Jurua River belong to the Solimoes Formation, considered to be of Mio-Pliocene age on the basis of pollen, vertebrates and invertebrates (Bergqvist et al. 1999).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Miranda-Ribeiro. 1938. Plicodontinia mourai. Livro Jubilar do Professor Lauro Travassos 319-321 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57989: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.01.2006, edited by Philip Mannion and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mourasuchus amazonensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Mourasuchus amazonensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Price 1964 crocodilian DGM-526-R - holotype - nearly complete skull with associated left hemimandible
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Telicomys amazonensis2, Simplimus sp.2, Tetrastylus sp.2, cf. Gyriabrus sp.2, Eumegamys paranaensis2, cf. Scleromys colombianus2, Scleromys cf. colombianus2, Potamarchus sigmodon2, Potamarchus murinus2, Potamarchus adamiae2
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Plicodontinia mourai n. gen. n. sp.
Plicodontinia mourai n. gen. n. sp. Miranda-Ribeiro 1938 toothed whale | |
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