Cerro Gordo Locality 2, UCMP V-4531 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as V4531

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

• level between the Chunchullo Sandstone Beds and the Tatacoa Sandstone Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and 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 143792: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.04.2013, edited by Maria Vallejo and Gustavo Ballen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Podocnemis pritchardi6 Wood 1997 river turtle
UCMP 63782, UCMP 40359; IGM 1933, IGM 1784, IGM 1866, IGM 1777
Mammalia
  - Mylodontidae
"Pseudoprepotherium confusum" = Magdalenabradys confusum3
"Pseudoprepotherium confusum" = Magdalenabradys confusum3 Hirschfeld 1985 edentate
Hirschfeld 1985, UCMP 38927
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Miocochilius anomopodus4 Stirton 1953 notoungulate
UCMP 38084, 38092, 38862, 38937
 Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Villarroelia totoyoi2 Cifelli and Guerrero Diaz 1997 placental
 Sparassodonta - Thylacosmilidae
Anachlysictis gracilis5 Goin 1997 metatherian
UCMP 39705
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Acregoliath rancii1 Richter 1989
UCMP 38082; 1; nearly complete scale; coll. J. Royo y Gomez; 1945. UCMP 38835; 1; fragment of scale; coll. J. Royo y Gomez; 1945.