First megatheriines (Xenarthra, Phyllophaga, Megatheriidae) from the Urumaco (Late Miocene) and Codore (Pliocene) Formations, estado Falcón, Venezuela

CARLINI, ALFREDO A.; BRANDONI, DIEGO; SÁNCHEZ, RODOLFO

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

University Press

Lugar: Cambridge, UK; Año: 2006 vol. 4 p. 269 - 278

1477-2019

SYNOPSIS Two new genera and species of Megatheriinae are described from the Neogene of Venezuela: Urumaquia robusta gen. et sp. nov. from the Urumaco Formation (Late Miocene) and Proeremotherium eljebe gen. et sp. nov. from the Codore Formation (Pliocene). These represent only the second Tertiary record of the subfamily at low latitudes in South America. The anatomical features of Urumaquia robusta suggest that the levels of the Urumaco Formation bearing the fauna here studied may not be correlated with the Laventan SALMA, but with Chasicoan–Huayquerian SALMAs. KEY WORDS New taxa, Mio–Pliocene, ground sloths, Venezuela, South America