Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 72.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Middle Miocene (Friasian)... upper redbeds of the Villavieja Formation"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1988

• Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Geologico-Mineras/Kyoto University collection

Primary reference: A. L. Rosenberger, T. Setoguchi, and W. C. Hertwig. 1991. Laventiana annectens, new genus and species: fossil evidence for the origins of callitrichine New World monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 88(6):2137-2140 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94555: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.02.2010

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