Also known as V4527

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: Laventan mammal zone, Villavieja Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• between Upper and Lower red bed mbrs

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•The Honda Group is constrained by radiometric and paleomagnetic evidence to between approximately 13.5 Ma–11.8 Ma (Flynn et al., 1996; Guerrero, 1996; Madden et al., 1996).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, fine-grained, gray sandstone

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 143788: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Maria Vallejo

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