Pueblo Viejo (Tarija) (Pleistocene of Bolivia)

Where: Tarija, Bolivia (21.5° S, 64.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 21.4° S, 64.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ensenadan (1.8 - 0.4 Ma)

• Specimen was discovered near top of exposed section approximately five meters beneath the two ferruginous layers found in upper part of Horizon B of Oppenheim (1943).

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, silty, sandy siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• A nearly complete antler, lacking only distal ends of tines.

Collection methods: University of Kansas, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology

Primary reference: D. Frailey, K. E. Campbell, and R. G. Wolff. 1980. Additions to the knowledge of Hippocamelus, Ctenomys and Myocastor from the middle Pleistocene of Tarija basin, Bolivia. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History (85)1-14 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143054: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 19.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys subassentiens Ameghino 1902 caviomorph
KUVP 43051
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Hippocamelus sp. Leuckart 1816 huemuls
KUVP 43063