Taima-taima Unit I (Pleistocene of Venezuela)

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.5° N, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 69.5° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Radioisotopic_date error method comments

•0.01266 0.00012 C14 on non-carbonate carbon

•0.01273 0.00012 C14 on non-carbonate carbon

•0.01339 0.00013 C14 on non-carbonate carbon

•0.01401 0.00014 C14 on non-carbonate carbon

• bed/horizon: Unit I

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

• "grey clayey sand"; a combination of slope-wash sediments and sand percolated upwards by upwelling water; overlies cobble pavement

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: A. L. Bryan, R. M. Casamiquela, J. M. Cruxent, R. Gruhn, and C. Ochsenius. 1978. An El Jobo mastodon kill at Taima-taima, Venezuela. Science 200:1275-1277 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 71283: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.02.1999, edited by Juan Carrillo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• details given by Gruhn and Bryan 1984
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unclassified
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? Sclerocalyptonae indet.
? Sclerocalyptonae indet.
Gruhn and Bryan 1984
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Notiomastodon platensis2, "Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon
Notiomastodon platensis2 Ameghino 1888 gomphothere
Gruhn and Bryan 1984: "perhaps
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon Cabrera 1929 gomphothere
Gruhn and Bryan 1984
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Gruhn and Bryan 1984
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctotherium sp.
Arctotherium sp. Bravard 1857 bear
"Pararctotherium": Gruhn and Bryan 1984
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium cf. cylindricum1
Glyptotherium cf. cylindricum1 Brown 1912 glyptodon
Gruhn and Bryan 1984
  - Mylodontidae
Glossotherium sp.
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840 edentate
Gruhn and Bryan 1984
1Carlini et al. 2008; 2Mothé and Avilla 2015