Las Mesitas Locality, UCMP V-4529 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as V4529

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Honda Group, Laventan (13.8 - 11.8 Ma)

• Overlying upper red bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone

• Fine gray poorly consolidated sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: W. Langston. 1965. Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 52:1-169 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143790: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Laura Mora-Rojas

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys schurmanni1 Stehlin 1940 caviomorph
UCMP 40585
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Pericotoxodon platignathus2 Madden 1997 notoungulate
UCMP 38980
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian