Banks of the Rio Guere (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Anzoategui, Venezuela (9.0° N, 64.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° N, 62.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Ines Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dr. R. Martin

• Repository: collections of the Ministerio de Fomento, Venezuela.

Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1947. A Miocene glyptodont from Venezuela. American Museum Novitates 1368:1-10 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145509: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 04.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
"Asterostemma venezolensis n. sp." = Boreostemma venezolensis
"Asterostemma venezolensis n. sp." = Boreostemma venezolensis Simpson 1947 glyptodon