Where: Cundinamarca, Colombia (4.4° N, 73.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 70.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: zone 34 pollen zone, Carbonera Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS... AGE:The zone determinated for Jaramillo and Rueda (2004)...STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, muddy, sandy sandstone and sandy siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, original sporopollenin, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric

Primary reference: A. Gomez, C. Jaramillo, M. Parra and A. Mora. 2009. Huesser Horizon: A lake and marine incursion in Northwestern South America during the Early Miocene. Palaios 24:199-210 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122034: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 15.12.2011

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