Salla-Luribay Basin (Salla Fauna) ( of Bolivia)

Where: La Paz, Bolivia (17.1° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 61.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, red, sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Patterson and L. G. Marshall. 1978. The Deseadan, Early Oligocene, Marsupialia of South America. Fieldiana Geology 41(2):1-100 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14208: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 23.05.2002, edited by Andrés Cárdenas and Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Polydolopimorphia - Polydolopidae
? Polydolops indet.2 Ameghino 1897 metatherian
PU 21998
 Sparassodonta - Proborhyaenidae
Proborhyaena gigantea Ameghino 1897 metatherian
 Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae
Borhyaenidae indet. metatherian
genus and species indet.
Pharsophorus lacerans Ameghino 1897 metatherian
 Sparassodonta -
Notogale mitis Ameghino 1897 metatherian
 Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae
Archaeohyrax suniensis1 Billet et al. 2009 notoungulate