Cerro Gordo Locality 1, UCMP V-4530 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as V4530

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, La Victoria Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• between base of Cerro Gordo fm. and prominent conglomerate mbr

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red 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 143791: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Maria Vallejo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Leontiniidae
Huilatherium pluripicatum2 Villarroel and Guerrero Diaz 1985 notoungulate
UCMP 38949
 Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Scirrotherium hondaensis1 Edmund and Theodor 1997 edentate
UCMP 38066