Salla Beds (general): Deseadan, Bolivia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae
? Palaeothentinae indet.
Palaeothentes boliviensis Patterson and Marshall 1978
Mammalia - Sparassodonta
Sallacyon hoffstetteri Villarroel and Marshall 1982
Paraborhyaena boliviana Hoffstetter and Petter 1983
Borhyaeninae indet. Ameghino 1894
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Didolodontidae
Salladolodus deuterotheroides
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Adianthidae
Thadanius hoffstetteri Cifelli and Soria 1983
Tricoelodus boliviensis Cifelli and Soria 1983
Mammalia - Primates - Cebidae
Branisella boliviana Hoffstetter 1969
Mammalia - Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Incamys bolivianus Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970
Eoviscaccia sp. Vucetich 1989
Pérez et al. 2018
UM SA 850-853
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Protosteiromys pattersoni n. sp. Pérez et al. 2018
Pérez et al. 2018
MNHN.F.SAL 1025 - type; referred material: MNHN-Bol-V-007733 and 007734
Mammalia - Rodentia
Sallamys woodi n. sp. Pérez et al. 2018
Pérez et al. 2018
UM SA 292 - type
Migraveramus beatus Patterson and Wood 1982
Branisamys luribayensis Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970
aff. Neoreomys sp. Ameghino 1887
Cephalomys bolivianus Lavocat 1976
Mammalia - Pyrotheridae
Pyrotherium romerii Ameghino 1888
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astrapotheriidae indet. Ameghino 1887
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Henricosborniidae
cf. Acamana sp. Simpson et al. 1962
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notohippidae
Rhynchippus sp. Ameghino 1897
Shockey 1997
? Rhynchippus cf. equinus Ameghino 1897
? Rhynchippus cf. pumilus Ameghino 1897
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
Trachytherus alloxus Billet et al. 2008
holotype, Trachytherus sp. A (MacFadden et al. 1985) and Trachytherus sp. B (MacFadden et al. 1985) (2 measurements)
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae
Archaeohyrax suniensis Billet et al. 2009
Billet et al. 2009
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Brucemacfaddenia boliviensis Hitz et al. 2008
Hitz et al. 2008
Mammalia - Cingulata
Ronwolffia pacifica Shockey 2017
Shockey 2017
YPM VPPU 021143-021145, 021147-021149, 023661 and MNHN-F SAL 242
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
cf. Octodontotherium sp. Ameghino 1894
see common names

Geography
Country:Bolivia State/province:La Paz
Coordinates: 17.2° South, 67.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.4° South, 61.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4-5
Key time interval: Deseadan
Age range of interval: 28.9 - 20.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified argillaceous,sandy not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:FMNH,MNHN,YPM
Metadata
Database number:133596
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, P. Mannion Enterer:A. Cárdenas, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-09-18 07:03:41 Last modified:2018-06-21 08:59:05
Access level:database members Released:2014-09-18 07:03:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42787. B. J. MacFadden, K. E. Campbell, R. C. Cifelli, O. Siles, N. M. Johnson, C. W. Naeser, and P. K. Zeitler. 1985. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and Mammalian fauna of the Deseadan (late Oligocene-early Miocene) Salla Beds of Northern Bolivia. Journal of Geology 93(3):223-250 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cárdenas/A. Cárdenas]

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]
46239 R. B. Hitz, G. Billet, and D. Derryberry. 2008. New interatheres (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the late Oligocene Salla Beds of Bolivia. Journal of Paleontology 82(3):447-469 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cárdenas]
66068 M. A. Pérez, M. Arnal, M. Boivin, M. G. Vucetich, A. Candela, F. Busker, and B. Mamani Quispe. 2018. New caviomorph rodents from the late Oligocene of Salla, Bolivia: taxonomic, chronological, and biogeographic implications for the Deseadan faunas of South America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
43125 B. J. Shockey. 1997. Two new notoungulates (Family Notohippidae) from the Salla Beds of Bolivia (Deseadan: Late Oligocene): systematics and functional morphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):584-599 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cárdenas]
63669 B. J. Shockey. 2017. New Early Diverging Cingulate (Xenarthra: Peltephilidae) from the Late Oligocene of Bolivia and Considerations Regarding the Origin of Crown Xenarthra. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(2):371-396 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]