Branisa locality V-2 (Salla Fauna): Deseadan, Bolivia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Paucituberculata
- Palaeothentidae
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Palaeothentes boliviensis n. sp.
Patterson and Marshall 1978
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1 specimen | ||||||
| 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: | local area |
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
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14210 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Wertheim |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 14208 | ||
| Created: | 2002-05-23 14:48:18 | Last modified: | 2006-08-14 01:10:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-23 14:48:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6192. | 5% 33860 | B. 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] |