UCMP Locality V 4517 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as La Venta; Royo no. 1999

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 72.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• "Approximately 8 meters of gray clays overlying concretionary mudstone which rests on conglomerates so conspicuously exposed in the middle of the Villavieja-Cerro Gordo section"

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• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray claystone

• "Found in the [gray] clays"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Stirton; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: A. H. Miller. 1953. A fossil hoatzin from the Miocene of Colombia. Auk 70(4):484-489 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85201: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.12.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Pitheciidae
Cebupithecia sarmientoi
Cebupithecia sarmientoi Stirton and Savage 1950 monkey
"Cebupitheca sarmientoi"
Aves
 Opisthocomiformes - Opisthocomidae
Hoazinoides magdalenae n. gen. n. sp.
Hoazinoides magdalenae n. gen. n. sp. Miller 1953 bird