UCMP Locality V-4528 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as V4528

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)

• Upper red bed

•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 143789: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Maria Vallejo and Laura Mora-Rojas

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sparassodonta - Hondadelphidae
Hondadelphys fieldsi3 Marshall 1976 metatherian
UCMP 38855
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Xenastrapotherium kraglievichi2 Cabrera 1929 placental
UCMP 38847,UCMP 38860, UCMP 38115, UCMP 38884
 Notoungulata - Leontiniidae
Huilatherium pluripicatum4 Villarroel and Guerrero Diaz 1985 notoungulate
UCMP 38230; UCMP 38916; UCMP 38884
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Sebecosuchia indet. Colbert 1946 crocodilian
UCMP 44563 and 44561 (teeth)
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
 Squamata - Teiidae
Dracaena colombiana1 Estes 1961 caiman lizard
U.C. 38927 posterior half of right maxilla, with bases for the three teeth