Capa de Tortugas/Corralito: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Podocnemis venezuelensis n. sp.
Wood and Diaz 1971
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Wood and Diaz 1971 | |||||||||
| recombined as Bairdemys venezuelensis | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Purussaurus sp.
Barbosa Rodrigues 1892
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| MCNC-URU-157-72V | ||||||||||
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Purussaurus mirandai
Aguilera et al. 2006
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| MCNC-URU-158-72V | ||||||||||
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Caiman latirostris
Daudin 1801
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| MCNC-URU-2002-145 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcón |
| Coordinates: | 11.2° North, 70.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.0° North, 68.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Urumaco |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 183009 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | P. Mannion, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-30 04:34:50 | Last modified: | 2016-11-30 04:34:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-30 04:34:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61076. | T. M. Scheyer and M. Delfino. 2016. The late Miocene caimanine fauna (Crocodylia: Alligatoroidea) of the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela. Palaeontologia Electronica 19(3):48A:1-57 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 64058 | R. C. Wood and M. L. Diaz. 1971. Podocnemis venezuelensis, a new fossil pelomedusid (Tes- tudines, Pleurodira) from the Pliocene of Venezuela and a review of the history of Podocnemis in South America. Breviora 376:1-23 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |