764Fossil sites

Fossils in Venezuela

764 fossil sites in Venezuela, with 239 finds of the groups people look for most; the richest period here: Neogene.

764Fossil sites

5Dinosaurs

239Finds

9By geological period

Where fossils have been found

Fossils in Venezuela

QuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneCretaceousJurassicPermianDevonianSilurianOrdovician

By geological period

Quaternary69

Neogene352

Paleogene187

Cretaceous103

Jurassic5

Permian16

Devonian23

Silurian7

Ordovician2

What was found

Dinosaurs · 5Laquintasaura, Tachiraptor

Pterosaurs · 1

Ichthyosaurs · 1Platypterygius

Plesiosaurs · 2

Mosasaurs · 2

Mammoths and mastodons · 13Notiomastodon, Cuvieronius

Trilobites · 22Greenops, Anisopyge, Rhenops, Parabolina, Cryptolithus, Flexicalymene, Marrolithus, Onnia, Porterfieldia, Reuscholithus, Salterolithus, Triarthrus

Ammonites · 193Parengonoceras, Vascoceras, Hysteroceras, Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras), Fagesia, Benueites, Pseudoneoptychites, Mitonia, Dufrenoyia, Mathoceras, Lyelliceras, Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras)