Where: La Paz, Bolivia (17.2° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° S, 61.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, argillaceous, sandy lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH, MNHN, YPM
Primary reference: B. J. MacFadden, K. E. Campbell, R. C. Cifelli, O. Siles, N. M. Johnson, C. W. Naeser, and P. K. Zeitler. 1985. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and Mammalian fauna of the Deseadan (late Oligocene-early Miocene) Salla Beds of Northern Bolivia. Journal of Geology 93(3):223-250 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 133615: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 19.09.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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cf. Peltephilus sp. Ameghino 1887 edentate | |
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Archaeohyrax sp. Ameghino 1897 notoungulate | |
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Argyrohyrax sp. Ameghino 1897 notoungulate | |
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Prohegetotherium sp. Ameghino 1897 notoungulate | |
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Sallamys pascuali Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970 caviomorph | |
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Notogale mitis Ameghino 1897 metatherian | |
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Proargyrolagus bolivianus Wolff 1984 metatherian | |