Norte Las Huertas: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Mourasuchus sp. Price 1964
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Falcon
Coordinates: 11.4° North, 69.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.1° North, 68.5° 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 Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:SW of El Mamón, Urumaco
Database number:182999
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-30 04:21:50 Last modified:2016-11-30 04:21:50
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-30 04:21:50
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]