Cucuruchu: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839
    = Glyptotherium cf. cylindricum Brown 1912
Carlini et al. 2008
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium rusconii (Schaub 1935)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Haplomastodon chimborazi Proaño 1922
synonym of Notiomastodon platensis
guayanensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela
Coordinates: 11.3° North, 69.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.3° North, 69.6° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: grey-brown clay, site ranges in total from Miocene to Present (animals from Pleistocene); between 9000 and 16000 BP
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,coprolite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:71350
Authorizer:J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo Enterer:K. Sears, J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:1999-03-14 07:35:20 Last modified:2020-11-30 11:47:44
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-14 07:35:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24075. J. M. Cruxent. 1970. Projectile Points with Pleistocene Mammals in Venezuela. Antiquity XLIV(175):223-225 [J. Alroy/K. Sears]

Secondary references:

37107 A. A. Carlini, A. E. Zurita, and O. A. Aguilera. 2008. North American Glyptodontines (Xenarthra, Mammalia) in the Upper Pleistocene of northern South America. Palaontologische Zeitschrift 82(2):125-138 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]