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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