Rosa Pata, La Paz, Bolivia (Miocene of Bolivia)

Where: La Paz, Bolivia (17.4° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° S, 66.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Rosa Pata Formation (Totora Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: L. G. Marshall and T. Sempere. 1991. The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review. In R. Suárez-Soruco (ed.), Fósiles y Facies de Bolivia - Vol. 1 Vertebrados (Revista Ténica de YPFB) 12(3-4):631-652 [D. Croft/D. Weinstein/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68799: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Deborah Weinstein on 07.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypodidae indet. Gray 1821 armadillo
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodontidae indet. Burmeister 1879 glyptodon
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
? Macraucheniidae indet. Ameghino 1889 placental
 Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
Pseudotypotherium sp. Ameghino 1904 notoungulate