Where: Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Baraya Member (Villavieja Formation), 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. The lower Villavieja formation (Baraya member) is considered of Laventan age now and the upper Villavieja formation is considered Laventan-Mayoan in age (Flynn et al., 1997).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green mudstone and gray, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: One scute and miscellaneous postcranial bones
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 13743: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 23.04.2002, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Neoglyptatelus originalis Carlini et al. 1997 edentate | |
Reptilia | |
"Paradracaena colombiana" = Dracaena colombiana
"Paradracaena colombiana" = Dracaena colombiana Estes 1961 caiman lizard IGM 184286 (partial right maxilla)
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