Duke Locality 118 (La Venta Fauna) (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (3.3° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Note: This collection had a Friasian age but this must be the Friasian sensu lato, that includes the Friasian sensu stricto, Mayoan and Laventan. La Victoria formation is now considered of Laventan age (Flynn et al., 1997).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; pebbly, volcaniclastic, gray sandstone and ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, red mudstone

• "gray, coarse- to fine-grained pebbly lithic arenites with important amounts of volcanic fragments and plagiocalse alternating vertically and laterally with reddish-brown and greenish-gray mudstone. The mudstones are very rich in fossil vertebrates."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Numerous isolated scutes and miscellaneous bones

Primary reference: A. A. Carlini, S. F. Vizcaino, and G. J. Scillato-Yane. 1997. Armored Xenarthrans: A unique taxonomic and ecologic assemblage. Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics; The Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia (R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, R. L. Cifelli, and J. J. Flynn, eds.; Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington) [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/L. Mora-Rojas]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13747: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 23.04.2002, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cingulata - Pachyarmatheriidae
Neoglyptatelus originalis
Neoglyptatelus originalis Carlini et al. 1997 edentate
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Balanerodus logimus
Balanerodus logimus Langston 1965 crocodilian
IGM 250668 (fragment of right maxilla)