Nuapua 1: Ensenadan, Bolivia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Mylodon darwini Owen 1839
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Nothrotherium or Nothropus
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Pampatherium sp. Ameghino 1875
similar to P. humboldti and P. typus
Mammalia - Cingulata - Panochthidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
    = Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Mothé and Avilla 2015
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
possibly H. hydrochaeris
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon sp. Lund 1841
"Leo (Jaguarius) onca"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Protocyon sp. Giebel 1855
possibly P. troglodytes
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctotherium sp. Bravard 1857
"Arctodus (s.g. Arctotherium)"
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
possibly M. patachonica
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869
"Equus (Amerhippus) sp., de la taille d'E. curvidens"
Mammalia - Camelidae
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869
Mammalia - Cervidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Bolivia
Coordinates: 20.9° South, 63.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.8° South, 62.9° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Ensenadan
Age range of interval: 1.75 - 0.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nuapua
Stratigraphy comments: other age:Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "volcaniclastic"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: "une cinerite consolidee, de couleur rose" that is 2 to 3 m thick; interpreted as a subaerial volcanic deposit; underlies Nuapua 2
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:turtles also present
Metadata
Database number:71322
Authorizer:J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:1999-02-16 15:35:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-16 15:35:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
23916. R. Hoffstetter. 1968. Bull Mus Nat Hist Natur 40:823-836 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

66428 D. Mothé and L. Avilla. 2015. Mythbusting evolutionary issues on South American Gomphotheriidae (Mammalia: Proboscidea). Quaternary Science Reviews 110:23-35 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]