Neogene Crocodile and Turtle Fauna in Northern South America

Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution: A look into the past

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 259-280

  Riff, Douglas ^a   Romano, Pedro Seyferth ^b   Oliveira, Gustavo Ribeiro ^b   Aguilera, Orangel ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Gavialoid dispersal and transoceanic migration one explanation for dispersal; Late Miocene Solim es Formation from Acre State diverse reptilian fossil fauna of Brazil; Major faunas Middle Miocene La Venta fauna, Late Miocene Urumaco fauna and Late Miocene Solim es fauna from Brazilian Acre; Neogene Amazonian turtles and eupleurodiran turtles in northern South America; Neogene crocodile and turtle fauna in northern South America; Neogene reptiles of northern South America turtle and crocodile record, from fossiliferous deposits; Neogene South American Alligatoridae high disparity; Peruvian Neogene reptiles outcrops along Amazonian Urubamba, Inuya and Mapuya rivers in Fitzcarrald Arch region; Sebecidae, family of terrestrial non crocodylian Mesoeucrocodylia; Venezuelan Neogene diversity of crocodyliforms, turtles and snakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886137296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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