• The Laventan (Spanish: Laventense) age is a period of geologic time (13.8 to 11.8 Ma) within the Middle Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically...
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    Montehermosan (6.8 to 4.0 Ma) Huayquerian (9.0 to 6.8 Ma) Mayoan (11.8 to 9.0 Ma) Laventan (13.8 to 11.8 Ma) Colloncuran (15.5 to 13.8 Ma) Friasian (16.3 to 15.5...
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  • Insects Environments Fluvial Fluvio-deltaic Fluvio-lacustrine Fluvio-deltaic Fluvial Laventan volcanoclastics Laventan fauna Laventan flora Volcanic Yes...
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    alphabetically. †Paradracaena colombiana Estes 1961 - the Middle Miocene (Laventan) Honda Group, Colombia The caiman lizards are built similarly to their...
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    Hondadelphidae Genus Hondadelphys Hondadelphys fieldsi (late middle Miocene, Laventan SALMA) Genus Stylocynus Stylocynus paranensis (latest Miocene, Huayquerian...
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    Honda Group, Colombia (category Laventan)
    Oligocene to Late Miocene, and in the redefined type section restricted to the Laventan age of the South American Land Mammal Ages (SALMA), equivalent to the Middle...
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    Pisco Formation (category Laventan)
    Insects Environments Fluvial Fluvio-deltaic Fluvio-lacustrine Fluvio-deltaic Fluvial Laventan volcanoclastics Laventan fauna Laventan flora Volcanic Yes...
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    phorusrhacid dubious) Genus ?Brontornis (Early to Middle Miocene (Santacrucian-Laventan) Santa Cruz and Monte León Formations, Argentina) — gigantic species, standing...
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    Purussaurus (category Laventan)
    crocodyliform Langstonia. This fauna dates from 13 million years ago, in the Laventan stage of the Late Miocene. The genus was named for the Purus River where...
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    Squirrel monkeys Temporal range: Miocene (Laventan to recent 13.8–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Common squirrel monkey Scientific classification Domain:...
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    Shrew opossum (category Laventan)
    Member Stilotherium parvum - Sarmiento Formation, Colhue-Huapi Member Laventan Honda Group, Bolivia Huayquerian Pliolestes venetus - Cerro Azul Formation...
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  • Eunectes stirtoni (category Laventan)
    is an extinct species of anaconda that lived during the Middle Miocene (Laventan) in the area of the present-day Tatacoa Desert. Fossils of the species...
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    disk-winged bat, Thyroptera wynneae †Thyroptera robusta, Middle Miocene (Laventan) Honda Group, Colombia Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson...
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    Barinasuchus (category Laventan)
    Barinasuchus Temporal range: Mid Eocene-Mid Miocene (Divisaderan-Laventan) ~42.2–11.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Holotype fossil of Barinasuchus arveloi...
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    Pebas Formation (category Laventan)
    Insects Environments Fluvial Fluvio-deltaic Fluvio-lacustrine Fluvio-deltaic Fluvial Laventan volcanoclastics Laventan fauna Laventan flora Volcanic Yes...
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    Lycopsis (category Laventan)
    (2004). "Functional-adaptive analysis of the postcranial skeleton of a Laventan borhyaenoid, Lycopsis longirostris (Marsupialia, Mammalia)". Journal of...
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    Phorusrhacos (category Laventan)
    Phorusrhacos (/ˌfɔːrəsˈrɑːkɒs/ FOR-əs-RAH-koss) is an extinct genus of giant flightless terror birds that inhabited South America during the Miocene epoch...
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  • Barstovian and lower Clarendonian North American Land Mammal Ages and the Laventan and lower Mayoan South American Land Mammal Ages. It is also coeval with...
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    to 13.6 Ma) correlates with: SALMA Colloncuran (15.5-13.8 Ma) earliest Laventan (13.8-11.8 Ma) ELMA - Astaracian (15.97-11.608 Ma) Mammal Neogene Units...
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  • Stirtonia (mammal) (category Laventan)
    Stirtonia is an extinct genus of New World monkeys from the Middle Miocene (Laventan in the South American land mammal ages; 13.8 to 11.8 Ma). Its remains have...
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    Paleocene (Las Flores Formation, Itaboraian) to Middle Miocene (Honda Group, Laventan) of South America. McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification...
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    Spheniscus muizoni (category Laventan)
    deposits (latest middle/earliest late Miocene, 13–11 Ma; Serravallian, or Laventan SALMA) and was probably replaced by the persistent S. urbinai, which is...
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    1997, a second genus and species of thylacosmilid was described from the Laventan Honda Group at the Lagerstätte La Venta in Colombia, Anachlysictis gracilis...
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  • Saimiri fieldsi (category Laventan)
    monkey in the genus Saimiri (squirrel monkeys) from the Middle Miocene (Laventan in the South American land mammal ages; 13.8 to 11.8 Ma). Its remains have...
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    new macraucheniids (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the late middle Miocene (Laventan South American Land Mammal Age) of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia". Journal of...
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    new macraucheniids (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the late middle Miocene (Laventan South American Land Mammal Age) of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia". Journal of...
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    huilensis was named on the basis of skull fragments. The deposits are Laventan in age (about 13 million years old), extending the range of the genus into...
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    Pelagornis (category Laventan)
    Portugal Castillo (Colhuehuapian-Santacrucian) and Capadare Formations (Laventan-Mayoan), Venezuela Pliocene Greta Formation, New Zealand Purisima Formation...
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    Find SALMA Basin Formation Country Notes Refs "Colubroidea sp." sic Laventan VSM Villavieja  Colombia Described from same Los Mangos Fishbed in Huila;...
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  • Saimiri annectens (category Laventan)
    monkey in the genus Saimiri (squirrel monkeys) from the Middle Miocene (Laventan in the South American land mammal ages; 13.8 to 11.8 Ma). Its remains have...
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