UCMP Locality V4416: Laventan, Colombia
collected by J. Royo y Gomez 1944
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonychidae indet.
Gervais 1855
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| Gervais 1855 (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Colombia | State/province: | Tolima |
| Coordinates: | 3.8° North, 75.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.2° North, 72.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Laventan | Mammal zone: | Laventan |
| Age range of interval: | 13.70000 - 10.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Honda | Formation: | Villavieja |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray sandstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | UCMP | ||
| Collectors: | J. Royo y Gomez | Collection dates: | 1944 |
| Taxonomic list comments:Locality details from University of California Museum of Paleontology database. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 140183 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | M. Vallejo |
| Modifier: | J. Carrillo | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-03-05 04:19:18 | Last modified: | 2014-04-14 15:54:10 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2016-03-05 04:19:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45203. | 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. Cárdenas] |