List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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| AMU-CURS 127 (3 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 11.2° North, 70.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.5° North, 68.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Codore | Member: | El Jebe | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: middle part of the El Jebe Member: Linares 2004a.
This collection had a Pliocene age attached. However: The Codore formation is divided into three formal members: El Jebe, Chiguaje, and Algodones. The El Jebe and Algodones Members were deposited in a fluvial environment, whereas the Chiguaje Member represents a marine transgression (Quiroz and Jaramillo, 2010) and records cetaceans (Aguirre-Fernández et al., 2017a; 2017b). The age of the Codore Formation is regarded as late Miocene to early Pliocene based on the presence of the palynomorph Echitricolporites spinosus (Hambalek et al., 1994; Quiroz and Jaramillo, 2010). The contact of the underlying Urumaco Formation and the Codore Formation is at ca. 6 Ma according to Smith et al. (2010). Foraminiferans of the Chiguaje Member are indicative of the early to middle Pliocene (ca. 4–3 Ma; Smith et al., 2010:fig. 2). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | A. Carlini |
Metadata
| Database number: | 146398 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | M. Vallejo |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-06-24 23:17:44 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2015-06-24 23:17:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47216. | A. A. Carlini, G. J. Scillato-Yané, and R. Sánchez. 2006. New Mylodontoidea (Xenarthra, Phyllophaga) from the Middle Miocene-Pliocene of Venezuela. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4(3):255-267 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/P. Wagner] |