Screenwash locality CVP-9: Laventan, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia
Goin 1997
Specimen n° IGM 251012, IGM 251011
Goin 1997
Specimen n° IGM 251232
Goin 1997
Specimens n° IGM 251010, IGM 251009
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Molossidae
Eumops sp. Miller 1906
Specimen n° IGM 184794
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Huila County:Villavieja
Coordinates: 3.2° North, 75.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.0° North, 71.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval: Laventan
Age range of interval: 13.8 - 11 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Honda Formation:Villavieja Member:Baraya
Stratigraphy comments: Fish Beds - Green claystone and mudstone is characterized by enormous quantities of disarticulated fish remains
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: The Fish Bed appears to be a lake or swamp deposit...at least 10 km in diameter
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:188243
Authorizer:A. Cárdenas Enterer:L. Mora-Rojas
Modifier:L. Mora-Rojas
Created:2017-08-26 20:56:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-08-26 20:56:43
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

46980. N. J. Czaplewski. 1997. Chiroptera. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, J. J. Flynn. (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 410-431 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cárdenas]

Secondary references:

46863 F. J. Goin. 1997. New clues for understanding Neogene marsupial radiation. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, J. J. Flynn. (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 187-206 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cárdenas]