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| Country: | Colombia |
State/province: | Cesar |
| Coordinates: |
9.6° North, 73.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.1° North, 55.0° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
| Period: | Paleogene |
Epoch: | Paleocene - Eocene |
| Stage: | Thanetian - Ypresian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 - Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Late Paleocene - Early Eocene |
| Age range of interval: | 59.24 - 48.07 m.y. ago |
| Formation: | Los Cuervos |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
| Stratigraphy comments: "Upper segment" of Los Cuervos Formaiton. Late Paleocene-Early Eocene age based on pollen and spores |
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "massive sublithic arenite (sandstone) layer interpreted as belong to deltaic channel deposits" |
| Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Also known as: | La Jagua de Ibirico |
| Database number: | 166981 |
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd |
Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion |
Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-03-05 17:33:31 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2015-03-05 17:33:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 54543. | | E. A. Cadena and M. H. Schweitzer. 2014. A Pelomedusoid Turtle from the Paleocene-Eocene of Colombia Exhibiting Preservation of Blood Vessels and Osteocytes. Journal of Herpetology 48(4):461-465 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |