Coyaima (Neogene) (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Tertiary Rio Saldaña; UCMP V-4411

Where: Tolima, Colombia (3.8° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy, conglomeratic sandstone

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 132580: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 22.08.2012, edited by Philip Mannion and Laura Mora-Rojas

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Taxonomic list

• A further description of the fossils is made by R. A. Stirton in 1953
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys sp.
Scleromys sp. Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
Ameghino 1887
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet.
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855 edentate
Gervais 1855
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodontidae indet.
Glyptodontidae indet. Burmeister 1879 glyptodon
Burmeister 1879
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypodidae indet.
Dasypodidae indet. Gray 1821 armadillo
Gray 1821
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astrapotheriidae indet.
Astrapotheriidae indet. Ameghino 1887 placental
Ameghino 1887
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Interatheriidae indet.
Interatheriidae indet. Ameghino 1887 notoungulate
Ameghino 1887
Reptilia
 Squamata -
cf. Tupinambis sp.1
cf. Tupinambis sp.1 Daudin 1802 tegu
U.C. 56303
 Loricata -
Sebecosuchia indet.2
Sebecosuchia indet.2 Colbert 1946 crocodilian
UCMP 44562 (tooth)
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligatoridae indet.2
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylidae indet.2
1Estes 1961; 2Langston 1965