Also known as ORS-16 pit, ORS16
Where: Monagas, Venezuela (9.8° N, 63.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 10.0° N, 62.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Mesa Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• The Mesa Formation is early to middle Pleistocene age, based on thermoluminescence dates of 0.5 to 1.0 Ma (Carbón et al., 1992).
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•The faunal assemblage from ORS16 suggests a probably late Pliocene- early Pleistocene age (Rincón et al., 2009; Rincón et al., 2011)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithology not reported and tar
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Museum repositories: 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 147081: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 05.07.2013, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Grace Varnham
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Taxonomic list
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Protocyon orocualensis n. sp.3 Ruiz-Ramoni et al. 2022 canine Holotype: OR 1332, right and left hemimandibles; previously recorded as Canis sp. and cf. Protocyon sp. in Rincón et al. 2007 and Rincón et al. 2009, respectively
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Boa constrictor2 Linnaeus 1758 boa Two almost complete anterior trunk vertebrae (IVIC OR-2623 and IVIC OR-2620), an artic- ulated sequence of six mid-trunk vertebrae (IVIC OR- 6445) and two almost complete posterior trunk vertebrae (IVIC OR-3674 and IVIC OR-6107).
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