Lower Salla Beds ( of Bolivia)

Where: La Paz, Bolivia (17.2° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° S, 61.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, argillaceous, sandy lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FLMNH, MNHN, YPM

Primary reference: B. J. MacFadden, K. E. Campbell, R. C. Cifelli, O. Siles, N. M. Johnson, C. W. Naeser, and P. K. Zeitler. 1985. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and Mammalian fauna of the Deseadan (late Oligocene-early Miocene) Salla Beds of Northern Bolivia. Journal of Geology 93(3):223-250 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133611: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 19.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptatelidae
cf. Glyptatelus sp. Ameghino 1897 edentate
 Theriamorpha - Orophodontidae
Orophodontidae indet.1 Ameghino 1894 edentate
genus and species indet. Specimens: MNHN SAL 232, MNHN SAL 229
 Theriamorpha -
Pseudoglyptodon sallaensis Engelmann 1987 edentate
specimen MNHN Bol V 009623
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet.1 Gervais 1855 edentate
genus and species indet. Specimens: MNHN SAL 230, MNHN SAL 231, MNHN SAL 227
 Theriamorpha - Pyrotheridae
Pyrotherium macfaddeni5 Shockey and Anaya-Daza 2004 placental
holotype and specimens PU 20684, PU 20692, PU 20694, MNHN BOL V 8518
 Notoungulata - Leontiniidae
Anayatherium fortis3 Shockey 2005 notoungulate
holotype
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Proadinotherium saltoni4 Shockey and Anaya 2008 notoungulate
holotype
 Notoungulata -
Pascualihippus bolviensis2 notoungulate
holotype
cf. Pascualihippus boliviensis4 Shockey 1997 notoungulate
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
? Coniopternium primitivum Cifelli and Soria 1983 placental
 Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae
Pharsophorus lacerans Ameghino 1897 metatherian