Also known as Kasira

Where: Potosí, Bolivia (22.0° S, 65.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 64.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Casira Formation, Montehermosan to Montehermosan (5.0 - 3.0 Ma)

• The age of these deposits is not well established (Anaya et al., 1989). Shockey et al. (2007) proposed a Pliocene age for these sediments, whereas Cerdeño et al. (2012) considered them late Miocene. However, the presence of Megatherium (M.) altiplanicum and the low diversity of the mesotheriid taxa (M. Fernández Monescillo, pers. comm.) suggest that an early Pliocene age (i.e. Montehermosan–Chapadmalalan SALMAs) would be more consistent for the Casira fauna

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Federico Anaya and Pierre-Antoine Saint-Andre in 1996; reposited in the MNHN (La Paz)

Primary reference: E. Cerdeño, B. Vera, G. I. Schmidt, F. Pujos, and B. M. Quispe. 2012. An almost complete skeleton of a new Mesotheriidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Miocene of Casira, Bolivia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):341-360 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68791: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Deborah Weinstein on 07.02.2007, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Philip Mannion

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