Right bank of Rio Urumaco, 1.5 (?) km N of El Hatillo?: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Gavialoidea indet.
(Brochu 1997)
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| UNEFM-CIAAP-1368 - "large crocodylian teeth belonging to large gharial" | ||||||||||
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Purussaurus sp.
Barbosa Rodrigues 1892
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| UNEFM-CIAAP-1367, 1368 and 1372 | ||||||||||
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Mourasuchus sp.
Price 1964
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| UNEFM-CIAAP-1378 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Podocnemididae indet.
Cope 1868
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Gaffney et al. 2008 | |||||||||
| UNEFM-CIAPP 139, poorly preserved skull | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 11.2° North, 70.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.9° North, 68.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| 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 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
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
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 183010 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | P. Mannion, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-30 04:38:11 | Last modified: | 2016-11-30 04:38:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-30 04:38:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 64062 | E. S. Gaffney, T. M. Scheyer, K. G. Johnson, J. Bocquetin, and O. A. Aguilera. 2008. Two new species of the side necked turtle genus, Bairdemys (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae), from the Miocene of Venezuela. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 82(2):209-229 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |