Where: Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baraya Member (Villavieja Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
• Lower (Fish Bed) part of Baraya Member
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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; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Geological Survey of Colombia, IGM & Duke University in 1985-1992
Primary reference: W. Langston and Z. Gasparini. 1997. Crocodilians, Gryposuchus and the South American gavials. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, R. L. Cifelli, J. J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics - The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 113-154 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153823: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 16.01.2014
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