UCMP Locality V-4526 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as V4526

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Laventan mammal zone, Villavieja Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• The Honda Group is constrained by radiometric and paleomagnetic evidence to between approximately 13.5 Ma–11.8 Ma (Flynn et al., 1996; Guerrero, 1996; Madden et al., 1996).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, sandy claystone

• Red sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: W. Langston. 1965. Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 52:1-169 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143787: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Laura Mora-Rojas and Maria Vallejo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Xenastrapotherium kraglievichi2 Cabrera 1929 placental
UCMP 38058
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Tupinambis cf. teguixin1 Linnaeus 1758 tegu
Sample U.C. 38856 Collected by Royo y Gomez
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian