Also known as SGOP
Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.3° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 70.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cocuiza Member (San Gregorio Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)
• 86Sr/88Sr dating indicates a Calabrian (early Pleistocene) age for the Cocuiza Member: 1.59 Ma (1.54 to 1.65 Ma) to 1.38 Ma (1.33 to 1.44 Ma) following Carrillo‑Briceño et al. (2021)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained, muddy sandstone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2019-2020
Primary reference: J. D. Carrillo‑Briceño, R. Sánchez, T. M. Scheyer, J. D. Carrillo, M. Delfino, G. L. Georgalis, L. Kerber, D. Ruiz‑Ramoni, J. L. O. Birindelli Cadena, A. F. Rincón, M. Chavez‑Hoffmeister, A. A. Carlini, M. R. Carvalho, R. Trejos‑Tamayo, F. Vallejo, C. Jaramillo, and D. S. Jones and M. R. S. 2021. A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140:9:1-76 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 219885: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 26.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian AMU-CURS-1322 and -1352, 1311–1316 and -1321, 1309, -1320, and -1319
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