Los Hoyos: Lujanian, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus 1758)
"Tayassu tajacu"
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus floridanus (Allen 1890)
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Huila
Coordinates: 3.8° North, 74.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.8° North, 74.3° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Lujanian
Age range of interval:0.30000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: other age:Late Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:eolian indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Taxonomic list comments:also member of Family Gomphotheriidae
Metadata
Database number:71285
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:K. Sears
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:1999-02-10 07:53:31 Last modified:2020-11-30 11:05:57
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-10 07:53:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24107. C. Villarroel, J. Brieva, and A. Cadena. 1989. Descubrimiento de Mamiferos Fosiles de Edad Lujanense (Pleistoceno Tardio) en el "Desierto" de la Tatacoa (Huila, Colombia). Caldasia 16(76):119-125 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/M. Uhen]