Honda Group, Colombia
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The Honda Group is a geological group of the Upper and Middle Magdalena Basins and the adjacent Central and Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The group, in older literature also defined as formation, is in its present-day type section in the Tatacoa Desert in the department of Huila subdivided into two main formations; La Victoria and Villavieja.
Statue of a prehistoric ground sloth from the Honda Group in Villavieja, Huila
Paleogeography of Northern South America 20 Ma, by Ron Blakey
View of Honda, Tolima, namesake of the Honda Group
Wind erosion of the Villavieja Formation in the Tatacoa Desert
South American land mammal age
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The South American land mammal ages (SALMA) establish a geologic timescale for prehistoric South American fauna beginning 64.5 Ma during the Paleocene and continuing through to the Late Pleistocene. These periods are referred to as ages, stages, or intervals and were established using geographic place names where fossil materials where obtained.
Since about 110 million years ago, South America and Africa are detached
Antarctica, Australia and South America were attached as one large isolated paleocontinent for about 15 million years