Coyaima 6 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as UCMP V-4416

Where: Tolima, Colombia (3.8° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Honda Group, Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, gray sandstone

• Gray sandstone with many black-coated concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Royo and Gomez and R. A. Stirton in 1944; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143780: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylidae indet.
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
"Gavialis colombianus" = Gryposuchus colombianus
"Gavialis colombianus" = Gryposuchus colombianus Langston 1965 crocodilian
U.C.M.P. no. 38358 (an incomplete cranial roof and braincase) and U.C.M.P. no. 38389 (fragments of a rostrum)