Escuela El Libano (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Huilatherium El Libano

Where: Huila, Colombia (2.6° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• The fossil was found in the Sands and Clays lever, mentioned in Fields 1959

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Calderon, S

Primary reference: C. Villarroel and J. Guerrero Diaz. 1985. Un nuevo y singular representante de la familia Leontiniidae? (Notoungulata, Mammalia) en el Mioceno de La Venta, Colombia. Geologia Norandina 9:35-40 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187740: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 09.08.2017

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