East of Capirote, road to Quebrada Honda: Middle Miocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Colombophis cf. portai Hoffstetter and Rage 1977
    = Colombophis spinosus Hsiou et al. 2010
Hsiou et al. 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Falcón
Coordinates: 11.2° North, 70.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.8° North, 66.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Middle Miocene
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Socorro Member:Upper
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: "The Socorro Formation is mostly represetned by deltaic and fluvial deposits (Hambalek et al., 1994)." (p. 234)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Abundance in sediment:rare
Articulated whole bodies:none
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Specimen is curated at Colección Alcaldía de Urumaco, Rodolfo Sänchez (AMU-CURS)
Metadata
Database number:63517
Authorizer:C. Bell, J. Head Enterer:C. Bell, J. Head
Modifier:C. Bell Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-15 15:43:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-15 15:43:06
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
18258. J. J. Head, M. R. Sânchez-Villagra, and O. A. Aguilera. 2006. Fossil snakes from the Neogene of Venezuela (Falcón State). Journal of Systematic Paleontology 41(3):233-240 [C. Bell/C. Bell]

Secondary references:

35436 A. S. Hsiou, A. M. Albino, and J. Ferigolo. 2010. Reappraisal of the South American Miocene snakes of the genus Colombophis, with description of a new species. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(3):365-379 [J. Head/J. Head]