Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 68.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Urumaco Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• As mentioned in Patterson’s field notes of 1972, the fossils described here were collected from the upper member of the Urumaco Formation which is usually considered as late Miocene in age (Linares 2004).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, medium sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dr Bryan Patterson and A. D. Lewis, R. C. Wood, D. C. Fisher, R. W. Repenning and M. F. Stanford in 1972
• The specimens collected by the Harvard University team, originally housed in the MCZ collection, were recently transferred to the Museo de Ciencias de Caracas (MCNC), Caracas, Venezuela.
Primary reference: A. D. Rincón, A. Solórzano, H. G. McDonald and M. Montellano-Ballesteros. 2019. Two new megalonychid sloths (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from the Urumaco Formation (late Miocene), and their phylogenetic affinities. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(5):409-421 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198252: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 12.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Urumacocnus urbanii n. gen. n. sp.
Urumacocnus urbanii n. gen. n. sp. Rincón et al. 2019 edentate Holotype: MCNC-10-72V, Referred material: MCNC 60-72V (left and right femur)
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