Also known as Patajau Sur

Where: Guajira, Colombia (11.9° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 68.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castilletes Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• Stratigraphic section Patajau Sur (430103) of Moreno et al (2015).

•A mean age of 16.2 Ma (range of 16.33 ± 0.11 Ma–16.07 ± 0.10 month year) is calculated

•for beds in the Patajau Valley near the base of the formation, on the basis of 87Sr/86Sr ratios. Beds in the middle part of the formation near Makaraipao yielded a mean 87Sr/86Sr ratio-derived age of 15.30 Ma (range of 15.14 ± 0.13 Ma–15.43 ± 0.09)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by STRI in 2013-2014

Primary reference: J. F. Moreno, A. J. W. Hendy, L. Quiroz, N. Hoyos, D. S. Jones, V. Zapata, S. Zapata, G. A. Ballen, E. Cadena, A. L. Cardenas, J. D. Carrillo, J. D. Carrillo, D. Delgado-Sierra, J. Escobar, J. I. Martinez, C. Martinez, C. Montes, J. Moreno, N. Perez, R. Sanchez, C. Suarez and M. C. Valle. 2015. Revised stratigraphy of Neogene strata in the Cocinetas Basin, La Guajira, Colombia. Swiss Journal of Paleontology [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /M. Vallejo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145271: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 31.05.2013, edited by Juan Carrillo

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