UCMP V-4530 Cerro Gordo (1) Locality (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: fluvial; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. A. Stirton. 1953. A new genus of interatheres from the Miocene of Colombia. California University Department of Geological Sciences B 29(6):265-347 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187122: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 14.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
cf. Hapalops sp.2 Ameghino 1887 edentate
Ameghino, 1887. UCMP 38067
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Miocochilius anomopodus Stirton 1953 notoungulate
UCMP 38068, 38070, 38072, 38075, 38078, 38079, 38417, 40917, 40918
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys schurmanni1 Stehlin 1940 caviomorph
UCMP 37929