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
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Phoberomys pattersoni
Bondesio and Bocquentin Villanueva 1988
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Carrillo and Sánchez-Villagra 2015 | |||||||||
AMU-CURS 454 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Purussaurus sp.
Barbosa Rodrigues 1892
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AMU-CURS unnumbered (cranium and mandibular remains) | ||||||||||
Caiman brevirostris
Souza Filho 1987
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Scheyer and Delfino 2016 | |||||||||
MCNC-1829 | ||||||||||
Globidentosuchus brachyrostris n. gen., n. sp.
Scheyer et al. 2013
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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 |
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] |