Malnombre Creek (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Vereda Hilarco

Where: Tolima, Colombia (3.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 72.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Was assigned to M. Miocene in the PBDB but the paper says Laventan.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray claystone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: M. C. Vallejo-Pareja, J. D. Carrillo, J. W. Moreno-Bernal, M. Pardo-Jaramillo, D. F. Rodriguez-Gonzalez and J. Muñoz-Duran. 2015. Hilarcotherium castanedaii, gen. et sp. nov., a new Miocene astrapothere (Mammalia, Astrapotheriidae) from the Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169236: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 11.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Hilarcotherium castanedaii Vallejo-Pareja et al. 2015 placental