Taima-taima Cobble Pavement: Late Pleistocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Haplomastodon sp. Hoffstetter 1950
Gruhn and Bryan 1984
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
Gruhn and Bryan 1984
    = Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino 1888
Mothé and Avilla 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Falcon
Coordinates: 11.5° North, 69.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Altitude:23 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 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:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-09 17:41:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]