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

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "The [two] argyrolagid specimens come from stratigraphic levels 5 or 6 at Tapial Pampa."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Primates are present in stratigraphic level ("Unit") 5, and these "units are among the richest faunal levels in the Salla Beds."

Primary reference: M. R. Sanchez-Villagra and R. F. Kay. 1997. A skull of Proargyrolagus, the oldest argyrolagid (late Oligocene Salla Beds, Bolivia), with brief comments concerning its paleobiology . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(4):717-724 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 13081: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 18.01.2002, edited by Darin Croft, Andrés Cárdenas and Philip Mannion

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