Los Mangos - Monkey Unit (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Villavieja Formation (Honda Group), Laventan (13.8 - 11.8 Ma)

• Monkey Unit

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Pons. 1983. Contribution a l'etude paleobotanique du Mesozoique et du Cenozoique de Colombie. [A. Cardenas /L. Mora-Rojas]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186389: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 21.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Celastrales - Celastraceae
Goupioxylon stutzeri Schönfeld 1947 bittersweet
Schonfeld (1947) - Sample nº 5716 - Collection of Paleobotanic laboratory, University Pierre et Marie Curie
Mammalia
 Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Neodolodus colombianus Hoffstetter and Soria 1986 placental
Hoffstetter and Soria 1986, MNHN VIV 9