Charlie locality, Buchivacoa: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
"crocodiles"
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. (Batsch 1788)
"turtles"
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. (Linnaeus 1758)
"other mammals"
Eionaletherium tanycnemius n. gen., n. sp. Rincón et al. 2015
IVIC-P-2870 - holotype
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Falcón County:Buchivacoa
Coordinates: 11.2° North, 70.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.9° North, 68.9° 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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Urumaco Member:Middle
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: was M. to L. Miocene. Now, the middle and upper Urumaco fm is considered L. Miocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:prodelta
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Urumaco
Database number:174730
Authorizer:A. Rincon, P. Mannion Enterer:A. Rincon, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-11-25 15:23:58 Last modified:2020-09-11 11:41:55
Access level:the public Released:2015-11-25 15:23:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
57096.fossil record A. D. Rincón, H. G. McDonald, A. Solórzano, M. Núñez Flores, and D. Ruiz-Ramoni. 2015. A new enigmatic Late Miocene mylodontoid sloth from northern South America. Royal Society Open Science 2(2):140256:1-13 [A. Rincon/A. Rincon/P. Mannion]