Chokxo Pata, Ayllu Yuruma (Pleistocene of Bolivia)

Also known as Western side of Lake PoopĆ³

Where: Sud Carangas, Bolivia (18.7° S, 67.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.7° S, 67.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; yellow sandstone

• yellowish sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2013

Primary reference: A. Boscaini, D. A. Iurino, B. Mamani Quispe, R. Andrade Flores, R. Sardella, F. Pujos, and T. J. Gaudin. 2020. Cranial Anatomy and Paleoneurology of the Extinct Sloth Catonyx tarijensis (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) From the Late Pleistocene of Oruro, Southwestern Bolivia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:69:1-16 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212010: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
  - Mylodontidae
Catonyx tarijensis Ameghino 1891 edentate
MNHN-Bol V 13364