V4938 Corral Locality (Miocene of Colombia)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Unit between Ferruginous Sands and Lower Red Bed

Environment/lithology: fluvial; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. E. Hirschfeld. 1985. Ground sloths from the Friasian La Venta fauna, with additions to the pre-Frasian Coyaima fauna of Colombia, South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 128:1-91 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187739: authorized by Andrés Cárdenas, entered by Laura Mora-Rojas on 09.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychinae indet. Trouessart 1904 edentate
Trouessart 1904, UCMP 39583