Also known as V4528
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, Villavieja Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
• Upper red bed
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•The Honda Group is constrained by radiometric and paleomagnetic evidence to between approximately 13.5 Ma–11.8 Ma (Flynn et al., 1996; Guerrero, 1996; Madden et al., 1996).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
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 143789: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Maria Vallejo and Laura Mora-Rojas
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Dracaena colombiana1 Estes 1961 caiman lizard U.C. 38927 posterior half of right maxilla, with bases for the three teeth
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Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian | |
Mammalia | |
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Huilatherium pluripicatum4 Villarroel and Guerrero Diaz 1985 notoungulate UCMP 38230; UCMP 38916; UCMP 38884
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Xenastrapotherium kraglievichi2 Cabrera 1929 placental UCMP 38847,UCMP 38860, UCMP 38115, UCMP 38884
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