Nucleo Escolar de Jutua: Pleistocene, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
SOATA-1, SOATA-2, SOATA-3 (3 measurements)
    = Haplomastodon waringi Holland 1920
Villarroel et al. 2001
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
SOATA-5 Incisor fragment
Villarroel et al. 2001
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Caninae indet. Gill 1872
SOATA-4 (4 measurements)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileini indet. (Pocock 1923)
SOATA-6
    = Odocoileus cf. salinae Frick 1937
Villarroel et al. 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Boyacá
Coordinates: 6.3° North, 72.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.4° North, 72.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1500 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Soatá
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Municiío de Soatá
Database number:146529
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:M. Vallejo
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-06-26 02:27:40 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2015-06-26 02:27:40
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
47325. C. Villarroel, J. Brieva, and A. Cadena. 1996. La Fauna de Mamlferos F6siles del Pleistoceno de Jutua, Municipio de Soata (Boyaca, Colombia). Geología Colombiana 21:81-87 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo]

Secondary references:

47327 C. Villarroel, A. E. Concha, and C. Macia. 2001. El Lago Pleistoceno de Soata (Boyaca , Colombia): Consideraciones esratigráficas, paleontológicas y paleoecológicas. Geología Colombiana 26:79-93 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cárdenas]