Micaña beds, Santa Cruz, Bolivis (Miocene of Bolivia)

Where: Santa Cruz, Bolivia (17.5° S, 67.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 65.5° W)

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When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; volcaniclastic volcaniclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68788: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Deborah Weinstein on 07.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
cf. Microtypotherium choquecotense Villarroel 1974 notoungulate
Dentary
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Megatheriidae indet. Gray 1821 edentate