Muyu Huasi: Huayquerian, Bolivia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Pseudohegetotherium sp. Cabrera and Kraglievich 1931
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Protypotherium sp. Ameghino 1882
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Rodentia - Octodontidae
cf. Sciamys sp. Ameghino 1887
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Piñero et al. 2021
GEOBOL MH-441
Mammalia - Rodentia - Abrocomidae
Protabrocoma sp. Kraglievich 1927
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizontidae indet. Bonaparte 1845
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomopsis sp. Kraglievich 1926
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Dinomyidae indet. Peters 1873
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
cf. Paleuphractus sp. Kraglievich 1934
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Marshall and Sempere 1991
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Mylodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889
Marshall and Sempere 1991
see common names

Geography
Country:Bolivia State/province:Chuquisaca
Coordinates: 19.0° South, 65.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.7° South, 63.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Huayquerian
Age range of interval: 8 - 5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Muyu Huasi
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: The original reference does not confirm the age (says just L. Miocene). In later papers: the Muyu Huasi Formation, Bolivia, late Miocene, Huayquerian SALMA (Hoffstetter, 1986; Marshall and Sempere, 1991)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red poorly lithified mudstone
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:68792
Authorizer:D. Croft, J. Carrillo Enterer:D. Weinstein, K. Pino
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-02-07 10:37:44 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-07 10:37:44
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
30674. C. Villarroel and L. G. Marshall. 1989. A new fossil land mammal locality of late Miocene (Huayquerian) age from Muyu Huasi, southcentral Bolivia. Boletin del Servicio Geológico de Bolivia, Serie A IV(1):27-40 [D. Croft/M. Sameh]

Secondary references:

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]
85280 P. Piñero, D. H. Verzi, A. I. Olivares, C. I. Montalvo, R. L. Tomassini and A. Fernández Villoldo. 2021. Evolutionary pattern of Metacaremys gen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America. Papers in Palaeontology 7(4):1859-1917 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino/P. Mannion]