Where: Tolima, Colombia (3.8° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Laventan mammal zone, Villavieja Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Royo y Gomez in 1944; reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. E. Hirschfeld. 1985. Ground sloths from the Friasian La Venta fauna, with additions to the pre-Frasian Coyaima fauna of Colombia, South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 128:1-91 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140179: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 05.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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