ammonites
Duke Locality 6 (La Venta Fauna) (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° N, 72.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Baraya Member (Villavieja Formation), Friasian (16.3 - 15.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green mudstone and gray, green sandstone

• "14.8 m of extremely fossiliferous greenish-gray mudstone and sandstone....fining upward sequence is 1-m-thick medium-grained sandstone followed by 4.5 m of reddish-brown sandy mudstone, 1.2 m of pale-green mudstone, and on top, 0.8 m of reddish-brown mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: One scute and miscellaneous postcranial 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/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13743: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 23.04.2002, edited by Roger Benson and Maria Vallejo

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