Also known as Muaco
Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.5° N, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 69.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: L. H. Soibelzon and A. D. Rincón. 2007. The fossil record of the short-faced bears (Ursidae, Tremarctinae) from Venezuela. Systematic, biogeographic, and paleoecological implications. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 244:287-298 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 145376: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 02.06.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhinoclemmys sp.1 Fitzinger 1835 turtle PFCX VF‑88, a complete and isolated nuchal bone, housed at the Paleontological Collection of the Museo Geológico Dr. José Royo y Gómez, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), Caracas, Venezuela
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Arctotherium wingei Ameghino 1902 bear | |
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