Domo de Agua Blanca: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Bairdemys venezuelensis
(Wood and Diaz 1971)
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Winkler and Sánchez-Villagra 2006 | |||||||||
| UNEFM-VF60, eggshell fragments | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Globidentosuchus brachyrostris
Scheyer et al. 2013
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| AMU-CURS-301 (posterior part of right mandible with four crushing teeth) and AMU-CURS-450 (partial mandibular remains) | ||||||||||
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cf. Thecachampsa informal sp. 2
Cope 1867
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| AMU-CURS-012 (cranium and mandible) | ||||||||||
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= Gryposuchus cf. pachakamue
Salas-Gismondi et al. 2016
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Salas-Gismondi et al. 2016 | |||||||||
| AMU CURS 12 | ||||||||||
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Hesperogavialis cruxenti
Bocquentin Villanueva and Buffetaut 1981
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| AMU-CURS-132 (rostrum) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 11.2° North, 70.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.9° 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: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Laminated mudstone/shale | |
| 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: | 147464 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | P. Mannion, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-07-09 02:05:13 | Last modified: | 2013-07-08 11:05:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-07-09 02:05:13 |
| 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:
| 59222 | R. Salas-Gismondi, J. J. Flynn, P. Baby, J. V. Tejada-Lara, J. Claude and P.-O. Antoine. 2016. A New 13 Million Year Old Gavialoid Crocodylian from Proto-Amazonian Mega-Wetlands Reveals Parallel Evolutionary Trends in Skull Shape Linked to Longirostry. PLoS ONE 11(4):e0152453:1-29 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 64061 | J. D. Winkler and M. Sánchez-Villagra. 2006. A nesting site and egg morphology of a Miocene turtle from Urumaco, Venezuela: Evidence of marine adaptations in pelomedusoides. Palaeontology 49(3):641-646 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |