Also known as Caesar Valley, Cesar; UCMP V4309; west of the town of Manaure
Where: Colombia (10.4° N, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 42.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: La Quinta Formation, Late/Upper Toarcian to Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 171.6 Ma)
• Magmatic zircons from two subvolcanic samples underlying the inferred fossiliferous horizons yielded U/Pb ages of 174.8 ± 1.2 Ma and 175.5 ± 1.4 Ma (Rodríguez and Obando, 2020).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.W. Durham & B. B. Colley in 1943; reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: W. Langston and J. W. Durham. 1955. A sauropod dinosaur from Colombia. Journal of Paleontology 29(6):1047-1051 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34727: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2003, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Reptilia | |
Perijasaurus lapaz n. gen. n. sp.
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