Where: La Paz, Bolivia (17.2° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° S, 61.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, silty siltstone and lithified, muddy claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Universidad Autonoma Tomas Frias, Postosi, Bolivia

Primary reference: B. J. Shockey and F. Anaya. 2011. Grazing in a new late Oligocene Mylodontid Sloth and a Mylodontid radiation as a component of the Eocene-Oligocene faunal turnover and the early spread of grasslands/savannas in South America. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18:101-115 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142561: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 13.04.2013, edited by Philip Mannion

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