Sur Quebrada Bejucal: Late Miocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
|
Mourasuchus sp.
Price 1964
|
||||||||||
| AMU-CURS unnumbered (partial cranial remains) | ||||||||||
| Scheyer and Delfino 2016 | ||||||||||
| AMU-CURS-083 and 84 | ||||||||||
|
Purussaurus sp.
Barbosa Rodrigues 1892
|
||||||||||
| AMU-CURS-020 (cranial and postcranial remains) | ||||||||||
|
Caiman sp.
Spix 1825
|
||||||||||
| AMU-CURS-018 (mandible) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 11.2° North, 70.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.6° North, 67.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago |
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
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Coquina Quebrada Bejucal; Bejucal Creek | ||
| Database number: | 147462 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-07-09 01:53:27 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-07-09 01:53:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47517. | T. M. Scheyer, O. A. Aguilera, M. Delfino, D. C. Fortier, A. A. Carlini, R. Sánchez, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, L. Quiroz, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2013. Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics. Nature Communications 4:1907:1-9 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |