Ferruginous Sandstone Locality, UCMP V5045: Laventan, Colombia
collected by Savage, D.E. 1950

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
cf. Rhamphostomopsis sp. Rusconi 1933
Langston 1965
U.C.M.P. no. 40062 (mandible)
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Pseudoprepotherium confusum n. sp. Hirschfeld 1985
recombined as Magdalenabradys confusum
UCMP 39957 - type (39 measurements)
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Granastrapotherium snorki Johnson and Madden 1997
Johnson 1984
UCMP 40044
Mammalia - Sirenia - Trichechidae
Potamosiren magdalenensis Savage 1951
Domning 1997
UCMP 104979
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Huila
Coordinates: 3.3° North, 75.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.7° North, 72.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Laventan Mammal zone: Laventan
Age range of interval:13.80000 - 11.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Honda Formation:Villavieja
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous,yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Collectors:Savage, D.E. Collection dates:Jun 1950
Metadata
Also known as:V-5045; 9 km E of Villavieja and 2.5 km NE of Hacienda Argentina
Database number:140051
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, P. Mannion, A. Cárdenas Enterer:M. Vallejo, P. Mannion, L. Mora-Rojas
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-28 04:33:25 Last modified:2020-10-08 06:22:33
Access level:group members Released:2016-02-28 04:33:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45203. S. E. Hirschfeld. 1985. Ground sloths from the Friasian La Venta fauna, with additions to the pre-Frasian Coyaima fauna of Colombia, South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 128:1-91 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cárdenas]

Secondary references:

46972 D. P. Domning. 1997. Sirenia. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, J. J. Flynn. (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 383-391 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cárdenas]
62485 S. Johnson. 1984. Astrapotheres from the Miocene of Colombia, South America. [A. Cárdenas/L. Mora-Rojas/L. Mora-Rojas]
46538 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]
74046 A. D. Rincón and H. G. McDonald. 2020. Reexamination of the Relationship of Pseudoprepotherium Hoffstetter, 1961, to the Mylodont Ground Sloths (Xenarthra) from the Miocene of Northern South America. Revista Geológica de América Central 63:1-20 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]