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| | FOSSIL BATS OF THE AMERICAS |
 | | The La Venta fauna originating from these beds is very significant as one of the few diverse Tertiary vertebrate faunas in tropical South America. |
 | | The La Venta fauna consists of approximately 155 kinds of fossil animals in 71 families, including a crab, a cartilaginous fish, about 25 bony fishes, 2 amphibians, 32 reptiles, 5 birds, and about 89 mammals (Kay et al. |
 | | The fossil mammals are particularly diverse and abundant at La Venta, consisting of marsupials, xenarthrans, rodents, astrapotheres, litopterns, toxodonts, typotheres, primates, a sirenian, and bats. |
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