Gualanday Group locality: Late/Upper Eocene, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Pyrotheriidae
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Colombitherium tolimense n. gen., n. sp.
Hoffstetter 1970
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| MNHN-CLB 15 - holotype | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Colombia | State/province: | Tolima |
| Coordinates: | 3.1° North, 75.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.7° North, 68.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Gualanday | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "middle Gualanday" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MNHN |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Colombitherium tolimense type locality | ||
| Database number: | 186571 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-06-26 10:59:40 | Last modified: | 2017-06-26 10:59:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-06-26 10:59:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62546. | G. Billet, M. Orliac, P.-O. Antoine and C. Jaramillo. 2010. New observations and reinterpretation on the enigmatic taxon Colombitherium (Pyrotheria, Mammalia) from Colombia. Palaeontology 53(2):319-325 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |