Dark Sandstone Locality; UCMP V-4518 (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° 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)

• at base of "Monkey unit" and directly below locality V-4517

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• Dark sandstone lens

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Royo, Gomez & Stirton in 1945; 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 143785: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Maria Vallejo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
Mammalia
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Granastrapotherium snorki Johnson and Madden 1997 placental
UCMP 37914, UCMP 39821