UCMP Locality V-4523 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as V4523

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Honda Group, Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• Fish bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; blue, sandy claystone

• Blue sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. E. Savage in 1950; 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 143786: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Laura Mora-Rojas

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Homunculidae
? Homunculus sp. Ameghino 1891 monkey
Specimen n° UCMP 39206
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Eocaiman sp. Simpson 1933 crocodilian
U.C.M.P. no. 38878 (anterior ends of right and left dentaries, possibly of two individuals)
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligatoridae indet., "Nettosuchus atopus n. gen. n. sp." = Mourasuchus atopus
"Nettosuchus atopus n. gen. n. sp." = Mourasuchus atopus Langston 1965 crocodilian
U.C.M.P. no. 38012 - holotype (fragmentary skull and jaws, and associated postcranial elements)
 Loricata -
Sebecosuchia indet. Colbert 1946 crocodilian
UCMP 40220 (tooth)