Bogotá Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Paleocene-Early Eocene (Peligran-Casamayoran)
61.66–52.5 Ma

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Type| Geological formation
Underlies| Regadera Formation
Overlies| Cacho Formation
Thickness| 169–1,415 m (554–4,642 ft)
Lithology
Primary| Mudstone, shale, siltstone
Other| Sandstone
Location
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 4°29′18.4″N 74°08′08.5″W﻿ / ﻿4.488444°N 74.135694°W﻿ / 4.488444; -74.135694
Region| Bogotá savanna & Eastern Hills,
Altiplano Cundiboyacense
Eastern Ranges, Andes
Country| Colombia
Type section
Named for| Bogotá
Named by| Hettner
Location| Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá
Year defined| 1892
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] 4°29′18.4″N 74°08′08.5″W﻿ / ﻿4.488444°N 74.135694°W﻿ / 4.488444; -74.135694
Paleocoordinates|  [ ⚑ ] 2°06′N 62°24′W﻿ / ﻿2.1°N 62.4°W﻿ / 2.1; -62.4
Region| Cundinamarca
Country| Colombia

Paleogeography of Northern South America
50 Ma, by Ron Blakey

The Bogotá Formation (Spanish: Formación Bogotá, E1-2b, Tpb, Pgb) is a geological formation of the Eastern Hills and Bogotá savanna on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The predominantly shale and siltstone formation, with sandstone beds intercalated, dates to the Paleogene period; Upper Paleocene to Lower Eocene epochs, with an age range of 61.66 to 52.5 Ma, spanning the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. The thickness of the Bogotá Formation ranges from 169 metres (554 ft) near Tunja to 1,415 metres (4,642 ft) near Bogotá. Fossils of the ungulate Etayoa bacatensis have been found in the Bogotá Formation, as well as numerous reptiles, unnamed as of 2017.

## Contents

* 1 Etymology
* 2 Description
* 2.1 Lithologies
* 2.2 Stratigraphy and depositional environment
* 3 Outcrops
* 4 Regional correlations
* 5 Itaboraian correlations
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes and references
* 7.1 Notes
* 7.2 References
* 7.3 Bibliography
* 7.3.1 Maps
* 8 External links

## Etymology

The formation was first described by Hettner in 1892,[1] then by Hubach in 1931, 1945 and 1957, and named in 1963 by Julivert after the Colombian capital Bogotá and its savanna.[2]

## Description

The Bogotá Formation was deposited during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, here indicated as LPTM

### Lithologies

The Bogotá Formation consists mainly of grayish-red, locally purplish, commonly greenish-gray, generally poorly stratified mudstone and silty claystone. Lithic arenite sandstone lenses, ranging from fine- to medium-grained, generally friable and variegated, are local constituents. Carbonaceous material is present as thin beds of low-grade argillaceous coal, north of Bogotá.[3][4] Fossil remains of Etaoya bacatensis, named after Colombian geologist Fernando Etayo and the indigenous name for the Bogotá savanna, Bacatá,[5] have been found in Ciudad Bolívar, close to the type locality of the Bogotá Formation.[6] Additionally, macroflora of Palaeophytocrene hammenii, named after Dutch botanist Thomas van der Hammen,[7] and pollen of Foveotriletes margaritae, Proxapertites operculatus and Foveotricolpites perforatus have been found, used for dating the formation.[1] Other pollen and flora, as Ulmoideipites krempii, Carpolithus, Anemocardium margaritae, and Hickeycarpum peltatum have been found in the Bogotá Formation.[8] The abundant paleosols of the Bogotá Formation show an increase in chemical weathering across the Paleocene-Eocene (P-E) transition; the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum.[9]

Later analysis has found several other species, such as pleurodire turtles, found at the Doña Juana dump,[10] dyrosaurid mesoeucrocodylians, boid snakes, dipnoan fishes, frogs, lizards, sebecid crocodyliforms and 11 fossils of mammals.[11] The find of a derived snake in the Lower Eocene section of the formation represents the oldest New World record.[12] The finds of iguanians, including the fossil record of hoplocercines, and boine, caenophidian, and ungaliophiine snakes, indicate a tropical forest environment, present just before the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO).[13] The faunal distribution has been correlated to the Carodnia-, Amphidolops-, and Wainka-bearing Peñas Coloradas Formation of the Golfo San Jorge Basin in Patagonia, Argentina.[14]

### Stratigraphy and depositional environment

The Bogotá Formation, with a thickness of 169 metres (554 ft) close to Tunja to 1,415 metres (4,642 ft) near Bogotá,[15][16] overlies the Cacho Formation and is overlain by the Regadera Formation. The age has been estimated to be Late Paleocene to Early Eocene.[17] The middle part of the succession has been dated using detrital zircons at 56.2 ± 1.6 Ma.[3][18] The spread of ages based on zircons has been reported from 60.96 ± 0.7 to 53.6 ± 1.1 Ma.[19] The Bogotá Formation is laterally equivalent with the shales of the Socha Formation, the San Fernando Formation, the El Limbo Formation,[17] Los Cuervos Formation,[20] and the fossil-rich Cerrejón Formation of La Guajira.[11]

## Outcrops

Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 522: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/Bogotá savanna" does not exist. The Bogotá Formation is apart from its type locality, found in the synclinals of the Río Frío, Checua-Lenguazaque, Sesquilé, Sisga, Subachoque,[21] around Lake Suesca, in the Tenza Valley, and in the synclinals of Teusacá and Usme.[2][22][23] In the Usme Synclinal, the formation has a thickness of 436.5 metres (1,432 ft).[24] The campus of the Universidad La Javeriana has the Bogotá Formation as solid basement rock.[25]

The Bogotá Formation forms the footwall of the eastward compressional Chicamocha Fault,[21] and the footwall of the westward thrusting Bogotá Fault.[22]

## Regional correlations

Template:Stratigraphy of the Llanos Basin

## Itaboraian correlations

Itaboraian correlations in South America Basin | Itaboraí | Golfo San Jorge | Salta | Altiplano Basin | Talara &
Tumbes | Altiplano
Cundiboyacense | Cesar-Ranchería |

Bogotá Formation (South America)

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Country |  Brazil |  Argentina |  Peru |  Colombia
Carodnia | 14px |  |  |  |  | 14px |  |
Gashternia | 14px | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  |
Henricosbornia | 14px | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  |
Victorlemoinea | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  |  |
Polydolopimorphia | 14px | 14px | 14px |  | 14px |  |  |
Birds | 10px |  |  |  | 10px |  |  |
Reptiles | 10px |  | 10px | 10px | 10px |  |  | 10px
Fish |  |  |  |  | 10px |  |  | 10px
Flora | 10px |  |  |  |  |  | 10px | 10px
Environments | Alluvial-lacustrine | Alluvial-fluvial | Fluvio-lacustrine | Lacustrine | Fluvial | Fluvio-deltaic |

8px Itaboraian volcanoclastics

8px Itaboraian fauna

8px Itaboraian flora

Volcanic |  | Yes |

## See also

* Geology of the Eastern Hills
* Geology of the Ocetá Páramo
* Geology of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense

## Notes and references

### Notes

### References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Acosta & Ulloa, 2002, p.59
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.57
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bayona et al., 2010, p.5
4. ↑ McLaughlin, 1970, p.15
5. ↑ Villarroel, 1987, p.242
6. ↑ Etayoa bacatensis at Fossilworks.org
7. ↑ Stull et al., 2012
8. ↑ Herrera et al., 2014, pp.204-209
9. ↑ Morón et al., 2013
10. ↑ Cadena, 2014, p.334
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Bloch et al., 2008
12. ↑ Head et al., 2011
13. ↑ Head et al., 2012
14. ↑ Woodburne et al., 2014, p.60
15. ↑ Bayona et al., 2013, p.8
16. ↑ Guerrero Uscátegui, 1992, p.5
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.60
18. ↑ Bayona et al., 2012, p.104
19. ↑ Bayona et al., 2012, p.103
20. ↑ Figures Bayona et al.
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Plancha 227, 1998
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Plancha 246, 1998
23. ↑ Geological Map Bogotá, 1997
24. ↑ Bayona et al., 2010, p.10
25. ↑ García & Alfaro, 2001, p.5

### Bibliography

* Acosta Garay, Jorge E.; Ulloa Melo, Carlos E. (2002), Mapa Geológico del Departamento de Cundinamarca - 1:250,000 - Memoria explicativa, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1–108, http://nebula.wsimg.com/ca3411dab87400d504f8461f0256772a?AccessKeyId=75F883B260454DDA3D4B&disposition=0&alloworigin=1, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Bayona, Germán; Montenegro, Omar; Cardona, Agustín; Jaramillo, Carlos; Lamus, Felipe; Morón, Sara; Quiroz, Luiz; Ruíz, María C. et al. (2010), "Estratigrafía, procedencia, subsidencia y exhumación de las unidades paleógenas en el Sinclinal de Usme, sur de la zona axial de la Cordillera Oriental - Stratigraphy, provenance, subsidence and exhumation of the Paleogene succession in the Usme Syncline, southern axial zone of the Eastern Cordillera", Geología Colombiana 35: 5–35, http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/24001/1/21100-118170-1-PB.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Bayona, Germán; Cardona, Agustín; Jaramillo, Carlos; Mora, Andrés; Montes, Camilo; Caballero, Victor; Mahecha, Hernando; Lamus, Felipe et al. (2013), "Onset of fault reactivation in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and proximal Llanos Basin; response to Caribbean–South American convergence in early Palaeogene time", Geological Society, London, Special Publications 377: 1–31, doi:10.1144/SP377.5, http://www.stri.si.edu/sites/publications/PDFs/STRI-W_Bayona_2013_GeologicalSociety_London_SpPublications-2013-Bayona-SP377.5.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Bayona, Germán; Cardona, Agustín; Jaramillo, Carlos; Mora, Andrés; Montes, Camilo; Valencia, Victor; Ayala, Carolina; Montenegro, Omar et al. (2012), "Early Paleogene magmatism in the northern Andes: Insights on the effects of Oceanic Plateau–continent convergence", Earth and Planetary Science Letters 331-332: 97–111, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.015, http://wwwprof.uniandes.edu.co/~cmontes/CamiloMontes/Publications_files/Bayona_etal_2012_Paleocene_magmatic_arc.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Bloch, Jonathan Ivan; Cadena, Edwin; Hastings, Alexander; Rincón, Aldo F.; Jaramillo, Carlos (2008), "Vertebrate faunas from the Paleocene Bogotá Formation of northern Colombia (Abstract)", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 68th Annual Meeting: _, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267637673, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Cadena, Edwin A (2014), "The fossil record of turtles in Colombia; a review of the discoveries, research and future challenges", Acta Biológica Colombiana, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 19 (3): 333–339, doi:10.15446/abc.v19n3.42223, http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/abc/v19n3/v19n3a01.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29
* García Borrero, D.; Alfaro Castillo, A. (2001), La prevención sísmica empieza por casa, estudios de microzonificación sísmica en el campus de la Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá - Colombia, Congreso Nacional de Ingeniería Física, Guadalajara, Mexico, pp. 1–13, http://www.ciees.org/doc_estudios/2001_garcia_alfaro.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Guerrero Uscátegui, Alberto Lobo (1992), Geología e Hidrogeología de Santafé de Bogotá y su Sabana, Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros, pp. 1–20
* Head, Jason J.; Bloch, Jonathan Ivan; Rincón, Aldo F.; Moreno Bernal, Jorge W. (2012), "Paleogene Squamates from the Northern neotropics: Ecological Implications and Biogeographic Histories (Abstract)", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of vertebrate Paleontology, At Raleigh, North Carolina: _, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280610923, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Head, Jason J.; Bloch, Jonathan Ivan; Rincón, Aldo F.; Bourque, Jason R.; Jaramillo, Carlos (2011), "An enigmatic derived snake from the earliest Eocene of equatorial South America (Abstract)", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 71st Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV: _, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285591333, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Herrera, Fabiany; Manchester, Steven R.; Carvalho, Mónica R.; Jaramillo, Carlos; Wings, Scott L. (2014), "Paleocene wind-dispersed fruits and seeds from Colombia and their implications for early Neotropical rainforests", Acta Paleobotanica 54 (2): 197–229, doi:10.2478/acpa-2014-0008, https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/acpa.2014.54.issue-2/acpa-2014-0008/acpa-2014-0008.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29
* McLaughlin, Donald H (1970), Economic geology of the Zipaquirá quadrangle and adjoining area, Department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, USGS, pp. 1–126, https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1970/0208/report.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Montoya Arenas, Diana María; Reyes Torres, Germán Alfonso (2005), Geología de la Sabana de Bogotá, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1–104
* Morón, Sara; Fox, David L.; Feinberg, Joshua M.; Jaramillo, Carlos; Bayona, Germán; Montes, Camilo; Bloch, Jonathan Ivan (2013), "Climate change during the Early Paleogene in the Bogotá Basin (Colombia) inferred from paleosol carbon isotope stratigraphy, major oxides, and environmental magnetism (Abstract)", Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 388: 115–127, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.08.010, https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/climate-change-during-the-early-paleogene-in-the-bogotá-basin-col, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Stull, Gregory W.; Herrera, Fabiany; Manchester, Steven R.; Jaramillo, Carlos; Tiffney, Bruce H. (2012), "Fruits of an "Old World" tribe (Phytocreneae; Icacinaceae) from the Paleogene of North and South America", Systematic Botany 37 (3): 784–794, doi:10.1600/036364412X648724, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261982646, retrieved 2019-02-04
* Villarroel A., Carlos (1987), "Características y afinadas de Etayoa n. gen., tipo de una nueva familia de Xenungulata (Mammalia) del Paleoceno Medio (?) de Colombia", Comunicaciones Paleontológicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 19: 241–254, http://www.mnhn.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/10917/1/cp19.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29
* Woodburne, Michael O.; Goin, Francisco J.; Bond, Mariano; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Gelfo, Javier N.; López, Guillermo M.; Iglesias, A.; Zimicz, Ana N. (2014), "Paleogene Land Mammal Faunas of South America; a Response to Global Climatic Changes and Indigenous Floral Diversity", Journal of Mammalian Evolution 21: 1–73, doi:10.1007/s10914-012-9222-1, http://naturalis.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/repositorio/_documentos/sipcyt/bfa004269.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-29

#### Maps

* Renzoni, Giancarlo; Rosas, Humberto (2009), Plancha 171 - Duitama - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QVU40dC0wUzhzTkk, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Fuquen M., Jaime A; Osorno M, José F. (2009), Plancha 190 - Chiquinquirá - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QVEYzMnV1ekNxTDQ, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Renzoni, Giancarlo; Rosas, Humberto; Etayo Serna, Fernando (1998), Plancha 191 - Tunja - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QQzhBTXNwUWJuUDg, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Ulloa, Carlos; Acosta, Jorge (1998), Plancha 208 - Villeta - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QMjhLeWJ0aU1Za1U, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Montoya, Diana María; Reyes, Germán (2009), Plancha 209 - Zipaquirá - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QYUdHRWFiN1JrVms, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Terraza, Roberto; Moreno, Giovanni; Buitrago, José A.; Pérez, Adrián; Montoya, Diana María (2010), Plancha 210 - Guateque - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QS1VHUTg1MEpNcHM, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Ulloa, Carlos E; Rodríguez, Erasmo; Acosta, Jorge E. (1998), Plancha 227 - La Mesa - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QR0k3cWk2aTlwbEk, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Buitrago, José Alberto; Terraza M., Roberto; Etayo, Fernando (1998), Plancha 228 - Santafé de Bogotá Noreste - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QTlNraVVZZ2ZCY0E, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Acosta, Jorge E.; Ulloa, Carlos E. (1998), Plancha 246 - Fusagasugá - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QNkY5UEloZU9pdEk, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Acosta, Jorge; Calcedo, Juan Carlos; Ulloa, Carlos (1999), Plancha 265 - Icononzo - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwFQPMJEi17QUVIxRzhsZ2RyTk0, retrieved 2017-06-06
* Various, Authors (1997), Mapa geológico de Santa Fe de Bogotá – Geological Map Bogotá – 1:50,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1, http://seisan.sgc.gov.co/RSNC/Mapa_Geo.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-16

## External links

* Gómez, J.; Montes, N.E.; Nivia, Á.; Diederix, H. (2015), Plancha 5-09 del Atlas Geológico de Colombia 2015 – escala 1:500,000, Servicio Geológico Colombiano, pp. 1, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309533589, retrieved 2017-03-16

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