Also known as Pozo; Inciarte localidad 185; Inciarte localidad 198.

Where: Zulia, Venezuela (10.8° N, 72.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 72.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Two geochemically defensible accelerator-mass spectrometer (AMS) radiocarbon (14C) dates exist for the vertebrate fauna from Mene de Inciarte, namely 25,500 ± 600 14C yr BP (28,456–30,878 cal yr BP) and 27,980 ± 370 14C yr BP (31,165–32,843 cal yr BP) for different collagenous fractions of a single specimen of G. clavipes (Jull et al., 2004). Three older and less precise AMS 14C dates (from 41,000 ± 1300 to 46,900 ± 2600 14C yr BP, or 42,440–46,776 to 45,655–[50,000] cal yr BP) were based on non-collagenous fractions of a single specimen of H. occidentalis, and thus are likely to be contaminated with old (“dead”) carbon from the asphalt.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: tar; unlithified, sandy tar

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

• Specimens are curated at the Museo de Biología, La Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Primary reference: N. J. Czaplewski, A. D. Rincón, and G. S. Morgan. 2005. Fossil bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) remains from Inciarte tar pit, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela. Caribbean Journal of Science 41(4):768-781 [C. Bell/C. Bell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63515: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 15.08.2006, edited by John Alroy, Matthew Clapham, Juan Carrillo, Grace Varnham and Owen Alfaro

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