Also known as UCMP V-4417
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: Laventan mammal zone, Honda Group, Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone and red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Royo and Gomez 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 143781: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Maria Vallejo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Gavialis colombianus n. sp." = Gryposuchus colombianus
"Gavialis colombianus n. sp." = Gryposuchus colombianus Langston 1965 crocodilian U.C.M.P. no. 41136 - type (skull lacking anterior half of rostrum, most of skull table, and occiput)
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