El Yacural 2 (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (11.9° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 66.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Cantaure Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; silty shale

• silty shales interbedded with algal limestones and shell beds

Size class: macrofossils

• Carcharodon megalodon tooth embedded in cetacean vertebra.

Primary reference: G. Aguirre-Fernández, J. D. Carillo-Briceño, R. Sánchez, E. Amsson, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2017. Fossil Cetaceans (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Neogene of Colombia and Venezuela. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24(1):71-90 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 181413: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Platanistidae
cf. Zarhachis flagellator Cope 1868 toothed whale