Also known as Scleromys Villavieja
Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Laventan mammal zone, Villavieja Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)
• Monkey Unit (Fields 1959)
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•The Honda Group is constrained by radiometric and paleomagnetic evidence to between approximately 13.5 Ma–11.8 Ma (Flynn et al., 1996; Guerrero, 1996; Madden et al., 1996).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by R. W. Fields and R. A. Stirton in 1945 and 1949; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. W. Fields. 1957. Hystricomorph rodents from the late Miocene of Colombia, South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 32:273-404 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134806: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 17.10.2012, edited by Philip Mannion and Laura Mora-Rojas
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Huilatherium pluripicatum8 Villarroel and Guerrero Diaz 1985 notoungulate UCMP 37938; UCMP 37988, UCMP 38996
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Scirrotherium hondaensis1 Edmund and Theodor 1997 edentate UCMP 40056 (right mandible);UCMP 37924 (osteodrem)
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"Pseudoprepotherium confusum" = Magdalenabradys confusum2
"Pseudoprepotherium confusum" = Magdalenabradys confusum2 Hirschfeld 1985 edentate Hirschfeld 1985, UCMP 39585, 39950
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"Olenopsis aequatorialis" = Drytomomys aequatorialis Anthony 1922 caviomorph Anthony 1922 UCMP 41636, 39969, 40055, 39898, 39653
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Charactosuchus fieldsi n. gen. n. sp.4
Charactosuchus fieldsi n. gen. n. sp.4 Langston 1965 crocodile U.C.M.P. no. 39646 - holotype (mandible); referred specimen: U.C.M.P. no. 37093 (partial mandible)
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