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
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 | |
Branisamys luribayensis, aff. Neoreomys sp., "Cephalomys bolivianus" = Asteromys bolivianus, Luribayomys masticator
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 | |
Incamys bolivianus Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970 chinchilid | |
Migraveramus beatus Patterson and Wood 1982 caviomorph
Sallamys pascuali Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970 caviomorph |