Duke locality 38 - Fish (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.1° N, 71.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Victoria Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• IGM 183259 - Hydrolycus sp. - two fragments of large canine tooth 7.6 mm and 16.0 mm in height, from Duke Locality 38

Collected by INGEOMINAS - Duke University in 1985 - 1991

Primary reference: J. Lundberg. 1997. Freshwater Fishes and their paleobiotic implications. In R. Kay, R. Madden, R. Cifelli, J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene Fauna from La Venta, Colombia 67-91 [A. Cardenas /L. Mora-Rojas/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186678: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 29.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Characiformes - Cynodontidae
Hydrolycus sp. Lundberg 1997
Sample IGM 183259