Estratos de Salla ( of Bolivia)

Where: La Paz, Bolivia (17.1° S, 67.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 61.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)

• Fossils located at lower part of Estratos de Salla; Salla-Luribay Basin, Bolivia.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, argillaceous, sandy lithology not reported

• Estratos Salla is predominantly composed by consolidated red to pink sandy clays with occasional evaporite and tuffaceous intercalations.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the AMNH, FMNH, MCZ

Primary reference: B. Patterson and A. E. Wood. 1982. Rodents from the Deseadan Oligocene of Bolivia and the relationships of the Caviomorpha. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 149(7):371-543 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133539: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 15.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia -
Branisamys luribayensis Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970 caviomorph
aff. Neoreomys sp. Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
"Cephalomys bolivianus" = Asteromys bolivianus Lavocat 1976 caviomorph
Luribayomys masticator Lavocat 1976 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Incamys bolivianus Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970 chinchilid
 Rodentia -
Migraveramus beatus Patterson and Wood 1982 caviomorph
Sallamys pascuali Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970 caviomorph