Rio Rujero: Late Pleistocene, Bolivia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Cuvieronius hyodon
(Fischer 1814)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Palaeolama sp.
Gervais 1869
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Lama sp.
Cuvier 1800
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Mammalia
- Xenarthra
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Pampatheriidae
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Pampatherium sp.
Ameghino 1875
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptodontidae indet.
Burmeister 1879
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Glyptodon cf. reticulatus
Owen 1845
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Neothoracophorus sp.
Ameghino 1889
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Lestodon cf. armatus
Gervais 1855
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Mammalia
- Tardigrada
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Tardigrada indet.
(Latham and Davies 1795)
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Geography
| Country: | Bolivia | State/province: | Tarija |
| Coordinates: | 21.7° South, 64.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 2000 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | Mammal zone: | Lujanian |
| Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 20.840 ± 100 Ka (14C) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified silty siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified sandy sandstone |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Museum repository:Museo Nacional Arqueologico-Paleontologico of Tarija (Bolivia) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 142160 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | A. Cárdenas |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-04-06 09:39:08 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2015-04-06 09:39:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46178. | M. Coltorti, L. Abbazzi, M. P. Ferretti, P. Iacumin, F. Paredes-Rios, M. Pellegrini, P. Pieruccini, M. Rustioni, G. Tito and L. Rook. 2007. Last glacial mammals in South America: a new scenario from the Tarija basin (Bolivia). Naturwissenschaften 94:288-299 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cárdenas] |