Carmen de Apicala; UCMP V-4422: Laventan, Colombia
collected by J.Royo y Gomez 1945
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Astrapotheria
- Astrapotheriidae
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Granastrapotherium snorki
Johnson and Madden 1997
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Johnson 1984 | |||||||||
UCMP 39015 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Eusuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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Caiman neivensis
(Mook 1941)
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recombined as Purussaurus neivensis | ||||||||||
UCMP no. 38985 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Colombia | State/province: | Tolima |
Coordinates: | 4.1° North, 74.7° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 3.6° North, 72.2° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
Key time interval: | Laventan | ||
Age range of interval: | 13.70000 - 10.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Honda |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Gray sandstone | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | J.Royo y Gomez | Collection dates: | 1945 |
Metadata
Database number: | 143783 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion, A. Cárdenas | Enterer: | P. Mannion, L. Mora-Rojas |
Modifier: | J. Carrillo | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-04-25 22:44:00 | Last modified: | 2018-08-14 04:44:38 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-04-25 22:44:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
46538. | 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] |
Secondary references:
62485 | S. Johnson. 1984. Astrapotheres from the Miocene of Colombia, South America. [A. Cárdenas/L. Mora-Rojas/L. Mora-Rojas] |