Carmen de Apicala; UCMP V-4422 (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Tolima, Colombia (4.1° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 72.2° 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; gray sandstone

• Gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.Royo y Gomez in 1945

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 143783: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Laura Mora-Rojas

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Granastrapotherium snorki Johnson and Madden 1997 placental
UCMP 39015
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
"Caiman neivensis" = Purussaurus neivensis
"Caiman neivensis" = Purussaurus neivensis Mook 1941 crocodilian
UCMP no. 38985