UCMP Locality V4524 (La Venta Fauna) (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as V-4524 Unit above Fish Bed

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laventan mammal zone, Baraya Volcanic Member (Villavieja Formation), Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

• Unit above Fish Bed

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Royo y Gomez in 1945; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: C. Villarroel and J. Colwell Danis. 1997. New Leontiniid Notoungulate. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, J. J. Flynn. (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 303-318 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145194: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 29.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Leontiniidae
Huilatherium pluripicatum Villarroel and Guerrero Diaz 1985 notoungulate
UCMP 38043