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: Baraya Member (Villavieja Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
• Fish Beds - Green claystone and mudstone is characterized by enormous quantities of disarticulated fish remains
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Hecht and T. LaDuke. 1997. Limbless Tetrapods. In R. Kay, R. Madden, R. Cifelli, J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia [A. Cardenas /L. Mora-Rojas]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188247: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 26.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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