Where: Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: La Victoria Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2018-2020
• VPPLT, Museo de Historia Natural La Tatacoa, La Victoria, Huila Department, Colombia
Primary reference: E. - A. Cadena, A. Link, S. B. Cooke, L. K. Stroik, A. F. Vanegas and M. Tallman. 2021. New insights on the anatomy and ontogeny of the largest extinct freshwater turtles. Heliyon 7(e08591):1-17 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 224005: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 27.12.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Stupendemys geographica Wood 1976 sideneck turtle VPPLT-1337 (Figures 1, 2, and 3), represented by a partially preserved skull, articulated shell (carapace and plastron), most of the elements of the right hindlimb, the right pectoral girdle bones, and cervical vertebrae 2 and 8, all from the same individual
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