UCMP V4533: Laventan, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Miocochilius anomopodus Stirton 1953
Stirton 1953
UCMP 39239 Rostral region
Mammalia - Sirenia - Trichechidae
Potamosiren magdalenensis Savage 1951
Reinhart 1951 1 individual
Reptilia - Alligatoridae
Alligatoridae indet. Gray 1844
Langston 1965
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Huila
Coordinates: 3.3° North, 75.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.8° North, 72.6° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Laventan
Age range of interval:13.80000 - 11.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Honda Formation:Villavieja
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Found in the El Libano sands and clays, a member of the Honda Formation, and were approximately 80 meters beelow the Cerbatana gravels and clays
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sands and clays
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Also known as:Hacienda San Jose; V-4533
Database number:58455
Authorizer:M. Uhen, A. Cárdenas, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Uhen, L. Mora-Rojas, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-02-07 11:07:49 Last modified:2020-09-05 01:04:04
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-07 11:07:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16578. S. E. Hirschfeld and L. G. Marshall. 1976. Revised faunal list of the La Ventana Fauna (Fiasian-Miocene) of Colombia, South America. Journal of Paleontology 50(3):433-436 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

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]
50755 R. H. Madden, J. Guerrero, R. F. Kay, J. J. Flynn, C. C. Swischer and A. H. Walton. 1997. The Laventan Stage and Age. In R.F. Kay, R.H. Madden, R.L. Cifelli, J.J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta 499-519 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]
18747 R. H. Reinhart. 1951. A new genus of sea cow from the Miocene of Colombia. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 28(9):203-214 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
43342 R. A. Stirton. 1953. A new genus of interatheres from the Miocene of Colombia. California University Department of Geological Sciences B 29(6):265-347 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cárdenas]