UCMP Locality V4534 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Homunculus Villavieja

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, red claystone

• Motley gray to red clay between conglomerate members

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. W. Fields, Henao-Londoño in 1949; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1951. Ceboid monkeys from the Miocene of Colombia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 28(11):315-356 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133689: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 25.09.2012, edited by Laura Mora-Rojas

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychinae indet.2
Megalonychinae indet.2 Trouessart 1904 edentate
Trouessart 1904, UCMP 77721
  - Mylodontidae
"Pseudoprepotherium confusum" = Magdalenabradys confusum2, cf. Neonematherium sp.2
"Pseudoprepotherium confusum" = Magdalenabradys confusum2 Hirschfeld 1985 edentate
Hirschfeld 1985, UCMP 39595
cf. Neonematherium sp.2 Ameghino 1904 edentate
Ameghino 1904, UCMP 37932
 Primates - Atelidae
"Homunculus tatacoensis" = Stirtonia tatacoensis
"Homunculus tatacoensis" = Stirtonia tatacoensis Hershkovitz 1970 monkey
Stirton 1951 Type UCMP 38989
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys colombianus1, Scleromys schurmanni1
Scleromys colombianus1 Fields 1957 caviomorph
UCMP 39253
Scleromys schurmanni1 Stehlin 1940 caviomorph
UCMP 37931
1Fields 1957; 2Hirschfeld 1985