Also known as La Venta,Cerro Gordo-Chunchullo interval

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

When: La Victoria Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• in the stratigraphic interval between the Cerro Gordo Sandstone Beds and the Chunchullo Sandstone beds, La Victoria Formation. Approximately 560 m below the Monkey Beds, from which Neosaimiri fieldsi is recovered, and further 720 m below the stratigraphic level of Neosaimiri annectens in the El Cardon Red Beds.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Duke University-Ingeominas in 1988-1990

Primary reference: R. F. Kay and D. J. Meldrum. 1997. A new small platyrrhine and the phyletic position of Callitrichinae. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, J. J. Flynn. (eds.), A new small platyrrhine and the phyletic position of Callitrichinae 435-458 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145432: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 02.06.2013

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