Morphometry, Bite-Force, and Paleobiology of the Late Miocene Caiman Purussaurus brasiliensis
Fig 1
Late Miocene fossil sites in Southwest Amazonia.
P. brasiliensis specimens recovered from sites 1–8. More specimens encountered at the Peruvian and Bolivian sites were assigned to Purussaurus sp. with no further taxonomic details. On the top right, the paleogeographical map showing the location of South America and the area of the Solimões Formation (white cross) during the Late Miocene (about 8 million years ago). Mollweide projection, latitude and longitude lines at 30° intervals. This map was created based on the work of Ron Blakey, available at http://cpgeosystems.com/paleomaps.html.