Duke Locality 46 (La Venta Fauna) (Miocene of Colombia)

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: Baraya Member (Villavieja Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.8 Ma)

• Lower (Fish Bed) part of Baraya Member

•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).

• 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 153824: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 16.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Gryposuchus colombianus Langston 1965 crocodilian
IGM 183933 (supraoccipital and partial parietals)