Also known as V-4517 Monkey Locality

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: Laventan mammal zone, Villavieja Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• Monkey Unit

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, muddy, silty mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. W. Fields in 1949

Primary reference: R. Estes and R. Wassersug. 1963. A Miocene Toad from Colombia, South America. Breviora 193:1-13 [A. Cardenas /L. Mora-Rojas]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 185892: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 23.05.2017

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