La Tienda (390090) (Miocene to of Colombia)

Also known as Puerto Lopez; Paraguachon

Where: La Guajira, Colombia (12.0° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 67.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Castilletes Formation), Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Lower Castilletes Formation, late early–early middle Miocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; mudstone

• very shallow marine to fluvio-deltaic environment

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Moreno-Bernal, J. Head, and C. A. Jaramillo. 2016. Fossil crocodilians from the High Guajira Peninsula of Colombia: Neogene faunal change in northernmost South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36:e1110586:1-17 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176825: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.03.2016, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Podocnemididae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle
MUN-STRI-dbid 37449
 Crocodylia -
Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
MUN STRI-16567