Where: La Paz, Bolivia (17.0° S, 67.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 16.8° S, 66.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene to Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous, sandy siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1917. Fossil plants from Bolivia and their bearing upon the age of the uplift of the Eastern Andes. Proceedings of United States National Museum 54(2229):103-164 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32129: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 05.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Polystichum bolivianum n. sp.
Polystichum bolivianum n. sp. | |
Angiospermae | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Terminalia singewaldi n. sp.
Terminalia singewaldi n. sp. |