Journal article
Palaeontological Evidence for the Last Temporal Occurrence of the Ancient Western Amazonian River Outflow into the Caribbean
PloS one, v 8(9), pp e76202-e76202
30 Sep 2013
PMID: 24098778
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Abstract
Fossil catfishes from fluvio-lacustrine facies of late Miocene Urumaco, early Pliocene Castilletes and late Pliocene San Gregorio formations provide evidence of a hydrographic connection in what is today desert regions of northern Colombia and Venezuela. New discoveries and reevaluation of existing materials leads to the recognition of two new records of the pimelodid Brachyplatystoma cf. vaillantii, and of three distinct doradid taxa: Doraops sp., Rhinodoras sp., and an unidentified third form. The presence of fossil goliath long-whiskered catfishes and thorny catfishes are indicative of the persistence of a fluvial drainage system inflow into the South Caribbean during the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary, complementary to the previous western Amazonian hydrographic system described from the Middle Miocene Villavieja Formation in central Colombia and Late Miocene Urumaco Formation in northwestern Venezuela. The Pliocene Castilletes and San Gregorio formations potentially represent the last lithostratigraphic units related with an ancient western Amazonian fish fauna and that drainage system in the Caribbean. Alternatively, it may preserve faunas from a smaller, peripheral river basin that was cut off earlier from the Amazon-Orinoco, today found in the Maracaibo basin and the Magdalena Rivers.
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- Title
- Palaeontological Evidence for the Last Temporal Occurrence of the Ancient Western Amazonian River Outflow into the Caribbean
- Creators
- Orangel Aguilera - Universidade Federal FluminenseJohn Lundberg - Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel UniversityJose Birindelli - Univ Estadual Londrina, Dept Biol Anim & Vegetal, Londrina, Parana, BrazilMark Sabaj Perez - Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia, Dept Ichthyol, Philadelphia, PA 19103 USACarlos Jaramillo - Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteMarcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra - University of Zurich
- Publication Details
- PloS one, v 8(9), pp e76202-e76202
- Publisher
- Public Library Science
- Number of pages
- 17
- Grant note
- DEB-1257813; DEB-0315963 / U.S. National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama 1257813 / Direct For Biological Sciences; National Science Foundation (NSF); NSF - Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) CNPq 311783/2011-2 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ) Museum Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG) Universidad Francisco de Miranda (UNEFM) in Venezuela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) CRSII3-136293 / Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES); Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000325423500148
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84884747611
- Other Identifier
- 991019330804304721
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