Also known as Asterostemma San Nicolas
Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cerbatana Member (La Victoria Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.8 Ma)
• This collection had formation: Cerbatana, but Cerbatana is not a formation but a group of beds, part of the upper La Victoria formation of the Honda group (Flynn et al., 1997).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: microfossils
Collected by Hoffstetter, R. and Etayo-Serna, F. in 1980
Primary reference: C. Villarroel. 1983. Descripcion de Asterostemma? acostae, nueva especie de propalaehoplophorino (Glyptodontidae, Mammalia) del Mioceno de La Venta, Colombia. Geologia Norandina 7:29-34 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/L. Mora-Rojas]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139894: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 20.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Asterostemma acostae" = Boreostemma acostae
"Asterostemma acostae" = Boreostemma acostae Villarroel 1983 glyptodon Villarroel 1983 Holotype ICN-P-225-1, Hypodigm ICN-P-225-2, DG-16-IX-80/3, DG-16-IX-80/2, ICN-P-158, ICN-P-147, ICN-P-148, ICN-P-149
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