ammonites
Ortega locality, UCMP V-4940 (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Also known as V4940

Where: Tolima, Colombia (3.9° S, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 60.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• unknown or unnamed stratum

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone

• "sandstones and claystones"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by R. W. Fields in 1949

Primary reference: W. Langston. 1953. Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates from Colombia, South America. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 64:1519 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95168: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 09.04.2010

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