Also known as Los Mesones, Tatacoa Desert

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• Just above the Tatacoa Sandstone Beds of the La Victoria Formation

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by INGEOMINAS-Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in 1997

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Takai, F. Anaya, H. Suzuki, N. Shigehara, and T. Setoguchi. 2001. A new Platyrrhine from the Middle Miocene of La Venta, Colombia, and the phyletic position of Callicebinae. Anthropological Science 109(4):289-307 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145559: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 06.06.2013

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