Where: Mizque, Bolivia (18.0° S, 65.6° W: paleocoordinates 20.7° S, 52.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tiupampan mammal zone, Santa LucĂa Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• said to be 125 m above base of El Molino Formation at Tiupampa and Maastrichtian (Marshall et al. 1983) but actually from "between 110 and 140 m above the base of the Santa Lucia Formation" and definitely Early Paleocene (Muizon and Marshall 1992)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1982-1988, 1998
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), sieve,
• Centro de Tecnologia Petrolera (CTP) and Museo de Historia Natural de Cochabamba (MNHN) collections
•initial collections were made between 1982 and 1988 and were recovered "by surface prospecting, quarrying, and screen washing" (Muizon and Marshall 1992)
Primary reference: C. de Muizon and R. L. Cifelli. 2000. The "condylarths" (archaic Ungulata, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia): implications on the origin of the South American ungulates. Geodiversitas 22(1):47-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138710: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Alcidedorbignya inopinata de Muizon and Marshall 1992 pantodont YPFB Pal 6364 (partial left maxillary) and 6466 (right M3)
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