Where: La Paz, Bolivia (19.0° S, 66.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 65.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ayo Ayo Member (Umala Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• 2.8 Myr Ayo Ayo tuff, which correspond to the base and the top of the Umala Formation and roughly coincide with the Pliocene (Marshall & Sempéré, 1991).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: L. G. Marshall and T. Sempere. 1991. The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review. In R. Suárez-Soruco (ed.), Fósiles y Facies de Bolivia - Vol. 1 Vertebrados (Revista Ténica de YPFB) 12(3-4):631-652 [D. Croft/D. Weinstein/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70653: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Deborah Weinstein on 01.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Macrauchenia cf. patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
"Macrauchenia cf. patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica Owen 1838 placental | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
Scelidodon cf. tarijensis Gervais and Ameghino 1880 edentate |