Also known as Cuzco, Baraya/Las Lajas Member

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laventan mammal zone, Baraya Member (Villavieja Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• The Chepe site is in the

•uppermost Las Lajas Member (of Takai et al., 1992) of the Villavieja Formation. The Las Lajas Member of Takai et al. (1992) is equivalent to the upper part of the Baraya Member of Guerrero (1997) and Villarroel et al. (1996).

•The Baraya Member is overlain by the Cerro Colorado Member.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by INGEOMINAS-Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in 1990-1993

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: N. J. Czaplewski, M. Takai, T. M. Naeher, N. Shigehara, and T. Setoguchi. 2003. Additional bats from the middle Miocene La Venta fauna of Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciecias exactas, físicas y naturales 27(103):263-282 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145614: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 07.06.2013

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