20 km west of Cochabamba: Early Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Bolivia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Geography
| Country: | Bolivia |
| Coordinates: | 17.4° South, 66.2° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.3° South, 65.9° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.129 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Sacaba | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Early-Middle Pleistocene" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 124931 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Shalap |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-02-29 06:49:17 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-02-29 06:49:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40130. | A. E. Zurita, M. Zamorano, G. J. Scillato-Yane, L. R. Gonzalez-Ruiz, S. Rodriguez-Bualo, B. R. Duran, and R. C. Paz. 2011. An exceptional Pleistocene specimen of Panochthus burmeister (Xenarthra, Glyptodontoidea) from Bolivia: Its contribution to the understanding of the Early-Middle Pleistocene Panochthini. Comptes Rendus Palevol 10:655-664 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen] |