UCMP V4533: Laventan, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Interatheriidae
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Miocochilius anomopodus
Stirton 1953
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Stirton 1953 | |||||||||
UCMP 39239 Rostral region | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Trichechidae
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Potamosiren magdalenensis
Savage 1951
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Reinhart 1951 | 1 individual | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Alligatoridae
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Alligatoridae indet.
Gray 1844
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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Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data |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] |