Also known as Neogene Sucre

Where: Sucre, Colombia (9.3° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 73.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, gray, green, sandy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Royo y Gomez

Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1947. A rodent and a peccary from the Cenozoic of Colombia. Compilación de Estudios Geológicos Oficiales en Colombia 7:317-324 [B. Beatty/B. Beatty]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133584: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 17.09.2012

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