Northernmost tip of South America: Giant testudinids, chelids, and podocnemidids from the castilletes formation, Colombia

Here we describe the northernmost South American record of fossil turtles from the late early Miocene to early middle Miocene of the Castilletes Formation, on the Alta Guajira Peninsula, Cocinetas basin, Colombia. Turtles in the lower segment of the Castilletes Formation (c. 16.33 Ma) are pleurodire...

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Autor Principal: Cadena, Edwin-Alberto
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/26653
https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.10.11.2014.2835