Chaparral Alto San Jose 2 (Oligocene of Colombia)

Also known as UCMP V4409-V4410

Where: Tolima, Colombia (3.1° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 69.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Gualanday Group, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• The Localities V4409 and V4410 (being V4409 and V4410) are stratigraphically bellow Loc. V4406 (Chaparral Alto San Jose)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red conglomerate and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Stirton, J.Royo y Gomez, in 1944; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1947. The first lower Oligocene vertebrate fauna from northern South America. Compilación de los estudios geológicos oficiales en Colombia 7:327-341 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 133619: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 19.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astrapotheriidae indet. Ameghino 1887 placental
Ameghino 1887
? Astrapotheriidae indet. Ameghino 1887 placental
Ameghino 1887