Remedios, Oruro: Early Pliocene, Bolivia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Panameriungulata
- Macraucheniidae
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Toxodontidae
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Posnanskytherium sp.
Liendo Lazarte 1943
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Mylodontidae indet.
Ameghino 1889
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Geography
| Country: | Bolivia | State/province: | Oruro |
| Coordinates: | 18.3° South, 67.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 18.1° South, 66.8° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 3740 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Remedios |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 70644 | ||
| Authorizer: | D. Croft | Enterer: | D. Weinstein |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-04-01 10:17:24 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-04-01 10:17:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19694. | L. G. Marshall and T. Sempere. 1991. The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review. In R. Suárez-Soruco (ed.), Fósiles y Facies de Bolivia - Vol. 1 Vertebrados (Revista Ténica de YPFB) 12(3-4):631-652 [D. Croft/D. Weinstein/S. Bruning] |