Also known as V-4524

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baraya Member (Villavieja Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• collected from the unit above the Fish Bed

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•Note: this collection was noted as L. Miocene age. But Flynn et al., 1997 dated the Honda group and found that the monkey and fish beds belong to the Villavieja formation, Baraya member and have an age of apr. 12.5Ma. This makes them of Laventan age.

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•The Honda Group is constrained by radiometric and paleomagnetic evidence to between approximately 13.5 Ma–11.8 Ma (Flynn et al., 1996; Guerrero, 1996; Madden et al., 1996).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Fields in 1959; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. L. Cifelli and J. Guerrero. 1989. New remains of Prothoatherium columbianus (Litopterna, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Colombia . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(2):222-231 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12970: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 12.01.2002, edited by Maria Vallejo, Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos

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