Where: Falcon, Venezuela (10.9° N, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 66.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Capadare Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• ased on its foraminifer assemblage, the Capadare Formation was assigned to the middle Miocene, Globorotalia fohsi fohsi-Globorotalia sjakensis Biozone (Renz, 1948; Lorente, 1978; D ́ıaz de Gamero, 1985). Using strontium isotope analyses (ratio of 87Sr/86Sr) from a marine mollusc shell (Ostrea sp.), (Solo ́rzano & Rinco ́n, in press) placed the Capadare Formation in the middle Miocene (∼12.24 Ma).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: chemical
• IVIC-P-2908 (IVIC-P: Coleccion de Paleontologia, Instituto Venezolano
•de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela)
Primary reference: G. S. Ferreira, A. D. Rincon, A. Solorzano and M. C. Langer. 2015. The last marine pelomedusoids (Testudines: Pleurodira): a new species of Bairdemys and the paleoecology of Stereogenyina. PeerJ 1-29 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191413: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 28.01.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bairdemys thalassica n. sp.
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