El Dinde - NE Villavieja: Laventan, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Myrtales - Combretaceae
Terminalioxylon portae Mirioni 1965
Mirioni, 1965 Specimen 5714
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
Leguminoxylon dindense Pons 1983
Pons, 1983 Specimen 5715
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Huila County:Villavieja
Coordinates: 3.2° North, 75.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.7° North, 72.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Laventan
Age range of interval:13.70000 - 10.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Honda Formation:Cerbatana
Stratigraphy comments: The author indicates that the samples were taken from the top of the "formation" Cerbatana, which is immediately followed by the San Nicolas clay.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified conglomerate
Lithology description: Fossil wood was discovered on a level of stratified gravel that passes to sandstone at the top. They are immediately followed by a deposit of richly fossiliferous clays (San Nicola clay). This level, like all the "Formation" Cerbatana, has a marked torrential character. In fact, according to Weilman (1970), sediments come from the erosion of the Central Cordillera and were infiltrated east and southeast by currents (Fig. 82). (p. 401 - Les bois fossiles ont été découverts dans un niveau de graviers à des grés dans la partie superiéure. Ils sont immédiatement suivis par un dépot d'argiles (San Nicolas clay) richment fossilifères. Ce niveau, comme l'ensemble de la "Formation" Cerbatana, a un caractère torrentiel marquè. En effet, d'après Wellman (1970), les sèdiments proviendraient de l'erosion de la Cordillère centrale et auraient été entraîné vers l'est et le sud-est par des courants (Fig. 82)).
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,permineralized,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:186303
Authorizer:A. Cárdenas Enterer:L. Mora-Rojas
Modifier:L. Mora-Rojas
Created:2017-06-19 18:04:30 Last modified:2018-07-27 12:24:39
Access level:the public Released:2017-06-19 18:04:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62479. D. Pons. 1983. Contribution a l'etude paleobotanique du Mesozoique et du Cenozoique de Colombie. [A. Cárdenas/L. Mora-Rojas]

Secondary references:

46711 D. J. Meldrum and R. F. Kay. 1997. Nuciruptor rubricae, a new pitheciin seed predator from the Miocene of Colombia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 102(3):407-427 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cárdenas]