Also known as Duke Locality 90, La Venta

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.7° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° N, 72.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• The locality is situated stratigraphically between the Chunchullo and Tatacoa Sandstone Units (Guerrero, 1990, in press), a part of the El Libano Sands and Clays unit of Fields (1959). This locality comes from within a measured stratigraphic section approximately 320 m stratigraphically above the contact with Jurassic volcanics at Cerro

•Gordo and 230 m below the Monkey Unit of Fields (Fields, 1959). It is found within the La Victoria Formation (=La Dorada Fm of Wellman, 1970 in part), Honda Group (Guerrero, 1990, in press).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Collected by Duke University-Ingeominas in 1988

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. F. Kay. 1994. "Giant" tamarin from the Miocene of Colombia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 95(3):333-353 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144401: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 07.05.2013

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