Also known as Fauna Peneyita

Where: Putumayo, Colombia (0.1° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 68.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• This collection has been assigned to the ?Early Oligocene by Stirton (1953) but in Perez et al., 2018 they say: other localities (Fig. 1) with caviomorphs tentatively assigned to the Deseadan have been reported at low latitudes: Peneyita and Coyaima in Colombia (Stirton 1953; Hoffstetter 1971). However, the age of these sediments is uncertain.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1953. Vertebrate paleontology and continental stratigraphy in Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 64:603-622 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/L. Mora-Rojas]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145350: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 01.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)