Scleromys Carmen de Apicala (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as UCMP V4421

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: bone collector

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. W. Fields. 1957. Hystricomorph rodents from the late Miocene of Colombia, South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 32:273-404 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133780: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 28.09.2012, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
 Loricata -
Sebecosuchia indet. Colbert 1946 crocodilian
UCMP 44566 (tooth)
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys schurmanni Stehlin 1940 caviomorph
Stehlin 1940 - Specimen UCMP n°40557, 40556, 40555
Scleromys colombianus Fields 1957 caviomorph
Fields 1957