Quebrada Honda - Zaraza: Santacrucian, Venezuela
collected by Dr. Peter Christ

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Podocnemis geologorum n. sp. Simpson 1943
Simpson 1943
AMNH 6781, partial shell
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astrapotherium christi n. sp. Stehlin 1928
specimen without number
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Guárico
Coordinates: 9.4° North, 65.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.9° North, 62.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Santacrucian
Age range of interval:17.40000 - 16.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: In this locality, the river bank shows an over 20 Metter deep set of layers of so-called Zaraza Series, a sandstone and marl complex of approximately 300 meters thickness, which is the youngest unit of the Tertiary around.

Note: Stehlin (1928) used the term "Zaraza Series" to designate the fossiliferous sandstones near the village of the same name. Kamen-Kaye (1942) mentioned the Zaraza Group. The layers are currently included into the Chaguaramas Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology:brown,green sandy marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Sandstein und Mergel komplexes. Sandige Mergel bräunlicher bis grünlicher - harter Sandstein.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Dr. Peter Christ
Metadata
Database number:146538
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, E. Vlachos Enterer:C. Suarez-Gomez, E. Vlachos
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-06-26 12:08:34 Last modified:2013-06-25 21:08:34
Access level:group members Released:2015-06-26 12:08:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
47291. H. G. Stehlin. 1928. Ein Astrapotherium fund aus Venezuela. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 21:227-232 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]

Secondary references:

64408 G. G. Simpson. 1943. Una tortuga del terciario de Venezuela. Revista del ministerio de Fomento, Caracas, Venezuela 5:53-64 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]