Also known as La Gaviota UCMP V-5043

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Laventan mammal zone, Villavieja Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• A concretionary sandstone thought to have been within the "Cerbatana Gravels" but now recognize as the Monkey Beds, Villavieja Formation.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Savage, D.E. in 1950; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. H. Madden. 1997. A new Toxodontid Notoungulate. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, J. J. Flynn. (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 335-354 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145234: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 30.05.2013

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