Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology

Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology offers a synthesis of the paleontological record of Venezuela, including new discoveries on stratigraphy, paleobotany, fossil invertebrates, and vertebrates. Besides providing a critical summary of the record of decapods, fishes, crocodiles, turtles, rodents, armadillos, and ungulates, several chapters introduce new information on the distribution and paleobiology of groups not previously studied in this part of the world. Given its position in the northern neotropics, close to the Panamanian land bridge, Venezuela is a key location for understanding faunal exchanges between the Americas in the recent geological past. The book reviews the recent paleobotanical and vertebrate fossil record of the region, provides an understanding of Pleistocene climatic change and biogeography for the last few thousand years, and integrates new information with summaries of Spanish language works on Venezuelan geology and paleontology.

Marcelo R. S+ínchez-Villagra is Assistant Professor of Paleontology at the University of Z++rich.

Orangel A. Aguilera is Professor Emeritus at the Universidad Francisco de Miranda in Coro. He has published extensively on recent and fossil faunas of the Caribbean region, especially on fish faunas, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution, where he has been an associate researcher for many years.

Alfredo A. Carlini is a researcher at the Argentinian Research Council (CONICET) and a faculty member of the Universidad de La Plata in Argentina.

List of Contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Venezuelan Geography and Biodiversity: A Brief Introduction	p. 3
A Short History of the Study of Venezuelan Vertebrate Fossils	p. 9
The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Venezuela of the Last 65 Million Years	p. 19
Paleoenvironmental Trends in Venezuela during the Last Glacial Cycle	p. 52
The Guayana Highlands: A Natural Laboratory for the Biogeographical and Evolutionary Study of the Neotropical Flora	p. 84
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans from Venezuela and Related Trace-Fossil Assemblages	p. 103
Venezuelan Caribbean and Orinocoan Neogene Fish	p. 129
Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Environments of Miocene Shallow to Marginal Marine Deposits in the Urumaco Trough, Falcón Basin, Western Venezuela	p. 153
Fossil Turtles from the Northern Neotropics: The Urumaco Sequence Fauna and Finds from Other Localities in Venezuela and Colombia	p. 173
Fossil Crocodylians from Venezuela in the Context of South American Faunas	p. 192
Fossil Rodents from the Late Miocene Urumaco and Middle Miocene Cumaca Formations, Venezuela	p. 214
An Introduction to Cingulate Evolution and Their Evolutionary History during the Great American Biotic Interchange: Biogeographical Clues from Venezuela	p. 233
The South American Native Ungulates of the Urumaco Formation	p. 256
Index	p. 271
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