Where: Colombia (3.3° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: La Victoria Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
• Note: This collection had a Friasian age but this must be the Friasian sensu lato, that includes the Friasian sensu stricto, Mayoan and Laventan. La Victoria formation is now considered of Laventan age (Flynn et al., 1997).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Several isolated scutes
Primary reference: A. A. Carlini, S. F. Vizcaino, and G. J. Scillato-Yane. 1997. Armored Xenarthrans: A unique taxonomic and ecologic assemblage. Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics; The Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia (R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, R. L. Cifelli, and J. J. Flynn, eds.; Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington) [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/L. Mora-Rojas]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13739: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 23.04.2002, edited by Roger Benson, Maria Vallejo, Philip Mannion and Laura Mora-Rojas
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Pedrolypeutes praecursor Carlini et al. 1997 armadillo | |
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Reptilia | |
"Paradracaena colombiana" = Dracaena colombiana5
"Paradracaena colombiana" = Dracaena colombiana5 Estes 1961 caiman lizard IGM 184671 (partial left maxilla)
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Gryposuchus colombianus2 Langston 1965 crocodilian IGM 184696 (almost complete skull and articulated mandible, atlas-axis complex, incomplete thoracic vertebra, proximal ends of the left scapula and coracoid, and rib fragments of one individual) and IGM 184057 (incomplete skulll and articulated mandible)
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