Campo petrolero El Mamón - 5 km North of Urumaco town: Huayquerian, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
cf. Phoberomys sp. Kraglievich 1926
Horovitz et al. 2006
CIAAP 1438
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Falcon
Coordinates: 11.3° North, 70.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.0° North, 68.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Huayquerian
Age range of interval:7.90000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Urumaco Member:Upper
Stratigraphy comments: Miembro superior de la Formación Urumaco. Probable edad Huayqueriense, Mioceno tardío.

Horovitz, et al. 2006: middle member of the Urumaco Formation (Aguilera 2004)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:203983
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:M. Kouvari
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2019-08-29 04:38:18 Last modified:2019-08-30 02:20:26
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-29 04:38:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47010. P. Bondesio and J. Bocquentin Villanueva. 1988. Novedosos restos de Neoepiblemidae (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) del Mioceno tardio de Venezuela. Inferencias paleoambientales. Ameghiniana 25(1):31-37 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]

Secondary references:

69912 I. Horovitz, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, T. Martin and O. A. Aguilera. 2006. The fossil record of Phoberomys pattersoni Mones 1980 (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Urumaco (Late Miocene, Venezuela), with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4(3):293-306 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]