Rodents Walton Unit between Monkey Beds and Fish Bed (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as La Venta Fauna

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Unit above Monkey Beds

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. H. Walton. 1997. Rodents. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, J. J. Flynn. (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 392-409 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195256: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 30.07.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys colombianus, Scleromys schurmanni
Scleromys colombianus Fields 1957 caviomorph
right m3-p4 Specimen nº UCMP 37994
Scleromys schurmanni Stehlin 1940 caviomorph
left p4-m3 Specimen nº UCMP 38967
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Prodolichotis pridiana
Prodolichotis pridiana Fields 1957 caviomorph
Prodolichotis pridiana (Fields 1957), right m3—p4 Specimen nº UCMP 36761