Cerro Jose la Paz site, El Picache: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Carrillo and Sánchez-Villagra 2015
AMU-CURS 454
Reptilia
Purussaurus sp. Barbosa Rodrigues 1892
AMU-CURS unnumbered (cranium and mandibular remains)
Caiman brevirostris Souza Filho 1987
Scheyer and Delfino 2016
MCNC-1829
Globidentosuchus brachyrostris n. gen., n. sp. Scheyer et al. 2013
AMU-CURS-222 - holotype (an almost complete skull with associated mandibles)
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Falcón
Coordinates: 11.2° North, 70.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.0° North, 68.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Urumaco Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:144595
Authorizer:P. Mannion, C. Jaramillo Enterer:P. Mannion, J. Carrillo
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-05-13 23:26:23 Last modified:2013-07-08 12:13:39
Access level:the public Released:2013-05-13 23:26:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47517. T. M. Scheyer, O. A. Aguilera, M. Delfino, D. C. Fortier, A. A. Carlini, R. Sánchez, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, L. Quiroz, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2013. Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics. Nature Communications 4:1907:1-9 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

60794 J. D. Carrillo and M. S. Sánchez-Villagra. 2015. Giant rodents from the Neotropics: diversity and dental variation of late Miocene neoepiblemid remains from Urumaco, Venezuela. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 89(4):1057-1071 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo/J. Carrillo]
61076 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]