Where: Oruro, Bolivia (18.3° S, 67.9° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° S, 66.7° W)

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• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Montehermosan mammal zone, Montehermosan (5.0 - 3.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, sandy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo de Historia Natural La Paz (MNHN BOL)

Primary reference: P. A. Saint-Andre and G. De Iuliis. 2001. The smallest and most ancient representative of the genus Megatherium Cuvier, 1796 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriidae), from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano. Geodiversitas 23(4):625-645 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /J. Ceballos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142382: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 10.04.2013

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