Taima-taima Cobble Pavement: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Haplomastodon sp.
Hoffstetter 1950
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| synonym of Notiomastodon | ||||||||||
| Gruhn and Bryan 1984 | ||||||||||
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Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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| Gruhn and Bryan 1984 | ||||||||||
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= Notiomastodon platensis
Ameghino 1888
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Mothé and Avilla 2015 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 11.5° North, 69.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.5° North, 69.5° West | ||
| Altitude: | 23 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: basal unit in local section; apparently a channel lag at the base of a spring | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:details given by Gruhn and Bryan 1984 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 71282 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Carrillo |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | ||
| Created: | 1999-02-09 17:41:39 | Last modified: | 2020-11-30 10:59:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-02-09 17:41:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23881. | A. L. Bryan, R. M. Casamiquela, J. M. Cruxent, R. Gruhn, and C. Ochsenius. 1978. An El Jobo mastodon kill at Taima-taima, Venezuela. Science 200:1275-1277 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 66428 | D. Mothé and L. Avilla. 2015. Mythbusting evolutionary issues on South American Gomphotheriidae (Mammalia: Proboscidea). Quaternary Science Reviews 110:23-35 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo] |