Where: Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: La Victoria Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
• Between the Chunchullo Sandstone and the Tatacoa Sandstone units
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Geological Survey of Colombia, IGM & Duke University in 1985-1992
Primary reference: W. Langston and Z. Gasparini. 1997. Crocodilians, Gryposuchus and the South American gavials. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, R. L. Cifelli, J. J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics - The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 113-154 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153821: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 16.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mourasuchus atopus Langston 1965 crocodilian IGM 250385 (incomplete maxilla, three fragments of a left dentary, and an angular)
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