Cueva del Zumbador (Pleistocene of Venezuela)

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (10.9° N, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 68.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Fossils from Cave-fill seidments. Cave is formed in the middle Miocene Capadare Formation (Rincón R., 2003).

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

• Cave is formed in the middle Miocene Capadare Formation (Rincón R., 2003)

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens are hosted in the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas

Primary reference: E. C. Holanda and A. D. Rincon. 2012. Tapirs from the Pleistocene of Venezuela. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(3):463-473 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147190: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 06.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus terrestris Linnaeus 1758 Brazilian tapir