Locality 012 Monkey Beds (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 72.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Laventan mammal zone, Baraya Member (Villavieja Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• Monkey beds (See Walton 1990)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. H. Walton. 1990. Rodents of the La Venta Fauna, Miocene, Colombia: Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironmentl implications. Southern Methodist University 1-147 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194494: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 21.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Prodolichotis pridiana Fields 1957 caviomorph
Walton 1990 IGM-DU 85-200