Salla-Luribay Basin (Salla Fauna): Deseadan, Bolivia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sparassodonta
Notogale mitis (Ameghino 1897)
Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae
Borhyaenidae indet. Savage 1951
genus and species indet.
Mammalia - Sparassodonta
Pharsophorus lacerans Ameghino 1897
Proborhyaena gigantea Ameghino 1897
Mammalia - Polydolopidae
Polydolopidae indet. Ameghino 1897
PU 21998
    = ? Polydolops indet. Ameghino 1897
Marshall 1982
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae
Archaeohyrax suniensis Billet et al. 2009
Billet et al. 2009
see common names

Geography
Country:Bolivia State/province:La Paz
Coordinates: 17.1° South, 67.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.3° South, 61.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:4000 meters
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:Middle Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Oligocene
*Local age/stage:Deseadan
Key time interval: Deseadan
Age range of interval: 28.9 - 20.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red lithified sandy claystone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:17 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:14208
Authorizer:J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo, R. Butler Enterer:J. Wertheim, R. Butler, A. Cárdenas
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Collections that are a subset of this one:14209, 14210
Created:2002-05-23 13:57:40 Last modified:2020-09-10 05:00:06
Access level:authorizer only Released:2003-05-23 13:57:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6192.5% 33860B. Patterson and L. G. Marshall. 1978. The Deseadan, Early Oligocene, Marsupialia of South America. Fieldiana Geology 41(2):1-100 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]

Secondary references:

46251 G. Billet, B. Patterson, and C. Muizon. 2009. Craniodental anatomy of late Oligocene archaeohyracids (Notoungulata, Mammalia) from Bolivia and Argentina and new phylogenetic hypotheses. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155:458-509 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cárdenas]
57557 L. G. Marshall. 1982. Systematics of the extinct South American marsupial family Polydolopidae. Fieldiana Geology 12:1-109 [R. Butler/R. Butler]