Coyaima 4 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as UCMP V-4414

Where: Tolima, Colombia (3.8° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Laventan mammal zone, Honda Group, Laventan (13.8 - 11.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone

• Red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Stirton; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: W. Langston. 1965. Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 52:1-169 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143778: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

• A further description of the fossils is made by R. A. Stirton in 1953
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian