Calabozo Pata (Red Rodent Level) ( of Bolivia)

Also known as Salla

Where: La Paz, Bolivia (17.0° S, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 61.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Salla Beds Formation, Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN (La Paz)

Primary reference: M. A. PĂ©rez, M. Arnal, M. Boivin, M. G. Vucetich, A. Candela, F. Busker, and B. Mamani Quispe. 2018. New caviomorph rodents from the late Oligocene of Salla, Bolivia: taxonomic, chronological, and biogeographic implications for the Deseadan faunas of South America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194514: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Promylophis cifellii n. gen. n. sp.
Promylophis cifellii n. gen. n. sp. Shockey et al. 2022 placental
UATF-V-2088 - holotype
 Rodentia -
Asteromys bolivianus Lavocat 1976 caviomorph
UF 114897