Carmen de Apicala (Neogene) (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Tertiary Melgar Basin; UCMP V-4418

Where: Tolima, Colombia (4.1° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 72.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Laventan mammal zone, Honda Group, Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, gray, argillaceous, conglomeratic claystone

• “Alternancia de areniscas y arcillolitas; pero aquellas (areniscas) son grises, más o menos pardas, y más o menos coherentes, en estratificación cruzada y ondulada, a veces conglomeráticas y con concreciones silíceas grandes redondeadas y en lajas, mientras que las arcillas son predominantemente rojas y más o menos sabulosas.”

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by R. A. Stirton, J.Royo y Gomez, in 1944

Primary reference: J. Royo y Gomez. 1945. Los vertebrados del Terciario continental de Colombia. Revista Colombiana de ciencias exactas, físicas y naturales 6(24):496-512 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 132559: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 22.08.2012, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

• A further description of the fossils is made by R. A. Stirton in 1953
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Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet.
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet.
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855 edentate
Gervais 1855
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys sp.
Scleromys sp. Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
Ameghino 1887
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
? Xenastrapotherium indet.
? Xenastrapotherium indet. Kraglievich 1928 placental
Kraglievich 1928
 Notoungulata - Homalodontotheridae
? Homalodontotherium indet.
? Homalodontotherium indet. Huxley 1870 notoungulate
Huxley 1870
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodontidae indet.
Toxodontidae indet. Scott 1873 notoungulate
Owen 1837