Also known as Zapatoca

Where: Colombia (6.9° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 42.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saynoceras verrucosum ammonoid zone, Rosablanca Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Upper segment of the Rosablanca Formation, correlated to the base of the late Valanginian, based on the occurrence of the ammonite Saynoceras verrucosum

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. A. Cadena. 2011. Potential earliest record of podocnemidoid turtles from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of Colombia. Journal of Paleontology 85(5):877-881 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118389: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 13.10.2011, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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