El Vijiadero, south of Llano Grande (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (11.2° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° S, 68.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Urumaco Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: delta plain; mudstone

• prograding strandplaindeltaic complex

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Aguirre-Fernández, J. D. Carillo-Briceño, R. Sánchez, E. Amsson, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2017. Fossil Cetaceans (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Neogene of Colombia and Venezuela. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24(1):71-90 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 181308: authorized by Amber Stafford, entered by Amber Stafford on 04.09.2016, edited by Mark Uhen and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Mourasuchus arendsi
Mourasuchus arendsi Bocquentin Villanueva 1984 crocodilian
AMU-CURS-768
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Iniidae
cf. Ischyrorhynchus vanbenedeni
cf. Ischyrorhynchus vanbenedeni Ameghino 1891 toothed whale