Corralito Locality: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Boidae
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Boinae indet.
Gray 1825
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelidae
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Chelus lewisi
Wood 1976
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Villanueva 1988 | |||||||||
| synonym of Chelus colombianus | ||||||||||
| UNEFM 1323, plastron and an isolated bone of the anterior half of a carapace | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Caiman sp.
Spix 1825
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Scheyer et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| AMU-CURS-090 (cranium and rostrum) | ||||||||||
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= Caimaninae indet.
Brochu 1999
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Scheyer and Delfino 2016 | |||||||||
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Purussaurus sp.
Barbosa Rodrigues 1892
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Scheyer et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| AMU-CURS unnumbered (cranial remains) | ||||||||||
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Melanosuchus fisheri n. sp.
Medina 1976
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Medina 1976 | |||||||||
| MCN-243 - type (cranium and rostrum) | ||||||||||
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Caiman lutescens
Rovereto 1912
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Scheyer et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| AMU-CURS-049 (partial rostrum) | ||||||||||
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= Caiman wannlangstoni
Salas-Gismondi et al. 2015
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Scheyer and Delfino 2016 | |||||||||
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Mourasuchus arendsi n. sp.
Bocquentin Villanueva 1984
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Bocquentin Villanueva 1984 | |||||||||
| UNEFM-CIAPP-1297 - type (skull and presacral vertebrae); hypodigm - CIAAP 1333 (partial maxilla) | ||||||||||
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Gryposuchus jessei
Gürich 1912
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Scheyer et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| UNEFM-CIAPP-617 (rostrum) | ||||||||||
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Gryposuchus croizati
Riff and Aguilera 2008
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Riff and Aguilera 2008 | |||||||||
| UNEFM-CIAAP-1440 (mandible) | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Pipidae
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cf. Pipa sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Delfino and Sanchez-Villagra 2018 | |||||||||
| AMU-CURS-726: fused sacral vertebra and urostyle | ||||||||||
| 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: | stated in text |
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 |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Specimens are curated in Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda, Coro/Centro de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas, Coro, Venezuela (UNEFM-CIAAP) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63520 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Bell, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion | Enterer: | C. Bell, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-15 15:59:08 | Last modified: | 2006-08-15 18:59:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-15 15:59:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18258. | J. J. Head, M. R. Sânchez-Villagra, and O. A. Aguilera. 2006. Fossil snakes from the Neogene of Venezuela (Falcón State). Journal of Systematic Paleontology 41(3):233-240 [C. Bell/C. Bell] |
Secondary references:
| 46787 | J. Bocquentin Villanueva. 1984. Um nuevo Nettosuchiade (Crocodylia Eusuchia) proveniente de la Formacion Urumaco (Miceno Superior), Venezuela. Ameghiniana 21(1):3-8 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 65642 | M. Delfino and M. R. Sanchez-Villagra. 2018. A Late Miocene pipine frog from the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela. Ameghiniana [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 46501 | C. J. Medina. 1976. Crocodilians from the Late Tertiary of northwestern Venezuela: Melanosuchus fisheri sp. nov. Breviora 438:1-14 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 46508 | D. Riff and O. A. Aguilera. 2008. The world's largest gharials Gryposuchus: description of G. croizati n. sp. (Crocodylia, Gavialidae) from the Upper Miocene Urumaco Formation, Venezuela. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 82(2):178-195 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 47517 | T. M. Scheyer, O. A. Aguilera, M. Delfino, D. C. Fortier, A. A. Carlini, R. Sánchez, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, L. Quiroz, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2013. Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics. Nature Communications 4:1907:1-9 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 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] | |
| 64172 | J. B. Villanueva. 1988. On the Turtle Chelus lewisi (Testudinata, Pleurodira). Journal of Hepretology 22(3):343-344 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |