Cerro Colorado Member (Miocene to of Colombia)

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro Colorado Member (Villavieja Formation), Laventan to Laventan (13.8 - 10.0 Ma)

• Cerro Colorado Redbed Member

•Note: the lower Villavieja formation (Baraya member) is considered of Laventan age now and the upper Villavieja formation (Cerro Colorado member) is considered Laventan-Mayoan in age (Flynn et al., 1997).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Insitituto Nacional de Investigaciones Geologico-Mineras (INGEOMINAS) and Duke University in 1988

Primary reference: S. Ford and L. Davis. 1991. New platyrrhine astragalus from the Miocene of Colombia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 12:73-74 [A. Cardenas /L. Mora-Rojas/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187895: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 15.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates -
Platyrrhini indet. monkey
IGM 184074