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SUBMITTER: Carrillo-Briceno JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4619466 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carrillo-Briceño Jorge D JD Maxwell Erin E Aguilera Orangel A OA Sánchez Rodolfo R Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo R MR
PloS one 20151021 10
The Urumaco stratigraphic sequence, western Venezuela, preserves a variety of paleoenvironments that include terrestrial, riverine, lacustrine and marine facies. A wide range of fossil vertebrates associated with these facies supports the hypothesis of an estuary in that geographic area connected with a hydrographic system that flowed from western Amazonia up to the Proto-Caribbean Sea during the Miocene. Here the elasmobranch assemblages of the middle Miocene to middle Pliocene section of the U ...[more]