Criadero de Loro (Paleocene of Bolivia)

Also known as 1 km SE of the Tiupampa 'Quarry'

Where: Bolivia (18.0° S, 65.6° W: paleocoordinates 20.7° S, 52.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tiupampan mammal zone, Santa Lucia Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; red sandstone

• Red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J.-C. Rage. 1991. Squamate reptiles from the early Paleocene of the Tiupampa area (Santa Lucía Formation), Bolivia. Suárez-Soruco, R. (ed.), Fósiles y facies de Bolivia. Vol. 1. Vertebrados. Revista Técnica de Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos. 503-508 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49077: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 07.04.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
Dyrosauridae indet.2 Stefano 1903 crocodilian
MHNC.14075–MHNC.14080, 14082, 14083
 Testudines - Podocnemidoidae
? Roxochelys vilavilensis1 de Broin 1971 sideneck turtle
 Squamata - Boidae
Boidae indet. Gray 1825 boa
MNHC 6631, two articulated vertebrae