Cementerio de Tortugas, Molle Cancha (Paleocene of Bolivia)

Also known as Tiupampa "turtle cemetery"; 2 km south-east of Torotoro; Toro Toro

Where: Potosí, Bolivia (18.1° S, 65.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 52.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Lucía Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Middle Santa Lucía Formation, lower Danian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; packstone and medium-grained, red sandstone

• packstone with medium-grain red sands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. de Broin. 1991. Fossil Turtles from Bolivia. In SUAREZ-SORUCO, R. (Ed.) (eds.), FOSILES Y FACIES DE BOLIVIA ·VOL. 1 VERTEBRADOS, Revista Técnica de YPFB 12(34):509-527 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190370: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.12.2017, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Podocnemidoidae
? Roxochelys vilavilensis
? Roxochelys vilavilensis de Broin 1971 sideneck turtle
several shells
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
Rodeosuchus machukiru n. gen. n. sp.
Rodeosuchus machukiru n. gen. n. sp. Jouve et al. 2021 crocodilian
MHNC.13829 - holotype