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Cruxent discovered a mastodon pelvic bone that was pierced by a stone spearpoint. Geological and radiocarbon dating of the find both indicate the date of 13,000 BP (11,000 BC).<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.coroweb.com/arqueologia.htm Acerca de los hallazgos en el area de Taima-Taima y Urumaco] (list of prehistoric animals at Taima-Taima).</ref><ref>[http://taimataimalugararqueologico.blogia.com/2010/061604-primer-sitio-de-caceria-de-mastodontes.php Primer sitio de cacería de mastodontes] (dating of finds)</ref>
[[File:Macrauchenia.jpg|thumb|Prehistoric [[Macrauchenia]], similar to Xenorhinotherium]]
Fossils of [[Xenorhinotherium]] (extinct animal similar to [[camel]] and [[rhinoceros]]), dating from the [[Pleistocene]] [[Epoch (geology)|Epoch]], have been found in Taima-Taima.<ref>Socorro, O.A.A. 2006. ''Tesoros paleontológicos de Venezuela, el Cuaternario del Estado Falcón''. Taima Taima, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural, 120 p.</ref> Other such finds were made in Brazil, and also in Venezuela in the localities of Muaco, and Cuenca del Lago.
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