page_title: Cocinetas Basin
section_title: Depositional environments and correlations
hierarchical_section_title: Cocinetas Basin / Description / Depositional environments and correlations
caption_attribution_description: Español: En la imagen podemos ver la recreación de un Chapalmalania en la que se muestran sus principales características morfológicas a partir de la información conocida de este mamífero extinguido que habitó Sudamérica entre 5,3 y 1,8 millones de años atrás. La ilustración se ha realizado con el asesoramiento de Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz, traductor científico y activo participante del Wikiproyecto:Mamíferos en la Viquipèdia en catalán. Català: A la imatge podem veure la recreació d'un Chapalmalania que en mostra les seves principals característiques morfològiques a partir de la informació coneguda d'aquest mamífer extint que va habitar Sudamèrica fa entre 5,3 i 1,8 milions d'anys. La il·lustració s'ha realitzat amb l'assessorament d'Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz, traductor científic i actiu participant del Viquiprojecte:Mamífers. English: In the illustration we can see the recreation of a Chapalmalania that shows the main morphological features from the known information about this extinct mammal that lived in South America between 5.3 and 1.8 million years ago The illustration was made with the advise of Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz, scientific translator and active participant of Mammals WikiProject in Catalan Wikipedia.
context_page_description: The Cocinetas Basin is a small sedimentary basin of approximately 1,000 square kilometres in northeasternmost Colombia. The onshore pull-apart basin is located in the department of La Guajira at the border with Zulia, Venezuela. The basin is bound by three sets of hills; the Serranía de Jarara, Serranía Macuira and Serranía Cocinas, with the eastern boundary formed by the Gulf of Venezuela, part of the Caribbean Sea.
  The basin was formed during the Paleogene as a result of the eastward movement of the Caribbean Plate along the northern edge of the South American Plate, leading to the deposition of a Middle Eocene to Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of conglomerates, sandstones, siltstones, limestones and mudstones.
  In the Cocinetas Basin, several fossiliferous stratigraphic units have been registered, providing an abundance of marine and continental vertebrate and invertebrate fossil fauna assemblages.
context_section_description: The invertebrate fauna of the Jimol Formation is similar to the fauna found in the latest Early Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela and the Culebra Formation of Panama. The Jimol Formation was deposited in a shallow marine environment, inner shelf depth (less than 50 metres (160 ft) water depth). This unit is correlated with the upper Agua Clara and lower Cerro Pelao Formations of the Venezuelan Falcón Basin.
  The invertebrate fauna of the Castilletes Formation is highly similar not only to that of the underlying Jimol Formation, but also to the Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. The Castilletes Formation was deposited in a shallow marine (estuarine, lagoonal, and shallow subtidal) to fluvio-deltaic environment with strong fluvial influence. The Castilletes Formation correlates with the upper Cerro Pelado and Querales Formations of the Venezuelan Falcón Basin. This unit is also correlative with the Cantaure Formation of the Paraguaná Peninsula in Venezuela.
  The marine invertebrate fauna of the Ware Formation shows a greater similarity with modern assemblages offshore of the Guajira Peninsula than with those of the
  underlying units. The base of the Ware Formation was deposited in a fluvio-deltaic environment, whereas the marine invertebrate assemblage at the top of the unit contains taxa typical of exposed open-ocean shoreface and nearshore settings, but with proximity to coral reef habitats. The Ware Formation correlates with the San Gregorio Formation in the Venezuelan Falcón Basin.
caption: The lower part of the mostly Pliocene Ware Formation was deposited in a fluvio-deltaic coastal environment, where the carnivorous Chapalmalania foraged
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