Villavieja (Neogene) (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Baraya y El Cerro Gordo

Where: Huila, Colombia (3.2° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Honda Group, Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• Jiminéz-Lara 2020: VPPLT 004, 264, 701, 706 and (partially) 1683-MT18 were collected in the La Victoria Fm., upper middle Miocene (Serravalian; see captions of Figs. 3–6 for more details on the stratigraphic provenance of individual specimens), while UCMP 39846 and part of VPPLT 1683-MT18 comes from the Villavieja Fm., upper middle Miocene (Seravalian).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomeratic sandstone and argillaceous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Stirton, J.Royo y Gomez, in 1944

Primary reference: J. Royo y Gomez. 1945. Los vertebrados del Terciario continental de Colombia. Revista Colombiana de ciencias exactas, físicas y naturales 6(24):496-512 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 133441: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 13.09.2012, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

• A further description of the fossils is made by R. A. Stirton in 1953
Mammalia
 Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae
Borhyaenidae indet. metatherian
Ameghino 1894
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Didelphidae indet. opossum
Gray 1821
 Placentalia -
Astrapotheria indet. Lydekker 1894 placental
Burmeister 1879 (was written as Astrapoterio but should be Astrapotheria indet.)
 Notoungulata - Notohippidae
Notohippidae indet. Ameghino 1894 notoungulate
Ameghino 1894
 Notoungulata - Leontiniidae
Leontiniidae indet. Ameghino 1894 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 notoungulate
Owen 1837
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Hegetotheriidae indet. notoungulate
Ameghino 1894
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Interatheriidae indet. Ameghino 1887 notoungulate
Ameghino 1887
  - Mylodontidae
Mylodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 edentate
Gill 1872
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855 edentate
Gervais 1855
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypodidae indet. Gray 1821 armadillo
Gray 1821
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodontidae indet. Burmeister 1879 glyptodon
Burmeister 1879
 Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Scirrotherium hondaensis Edmund and Theodor 1997 edentate
Holotype: UCMP 40201
 Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Proterotheriidae indet. Ameghino 1887 placental
Ameghino 1887
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macraucheniidae indet. Ameghino 1889 placental
Gill 1872
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys sp. Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
Ameghino 1887
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Caviidae indet. Gray 1821 caviomorph
Waterhouse 1839
 Primates - Cebidae
Cebidae indet. Savage 1951 monkey
Bonaparte 1831