Where: Zulia, Venezuela (10.4° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 70.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Horizon doubtful, probably Middle Pliocene (Hopwood, 1928).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mr. Donald Stewart
• All the specimens are registered in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)
Primary reference: A. T. Hopwood. 1928. Gyrinodon quassus, a new genus and species of toxodont from Western Buchivacoa (Venezuela). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 84:573-583 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 145454: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 03.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gyrinodon quassus n. gen. n. sp.
Gyrinodon quassus n. gen. n. sp. Hopwood 1928 notoungulate M 13158 B.M.G.D / Specimens: part of a left mandibular ramus (assigned as holotype); upper dentition (right second incisor, right second premolar, right third premolar, left fourth premolar); skull-cap; seventh cervical and first dorsal vertebrae; blade of the scapula; distal end of the right humerus; proximal half of the left femur; part of the shaft of the right.
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