Rio Rujero (Pleistocene of Bolivia)

Where: Tarija, Bolivia (21.7° S, 64.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.7° S, 64.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lujanian mammal zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, silty siltstone and lithified, sandy sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Museum repository:Museo Nacional Arqueologico-Paleontologico of Tarija (Bolivia)

Primary reference: M. Coltorti, L. Abbazzi, M. P. Ferretti, P. Iacumin, F. Paredes-Rios, M. Pellegrini, P. Pieruccini, M. Rustioni, G. Tito and L. Rook. 2007. Last glacial mammals in South America: a new scenario from the Tarija basin (Bolivia). Naturwissenschaften 94:288-299 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142160: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 06.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Placentalia -
 Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Pampatherium sp. Ameghino 1875 edentate
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodontidae indet. Burmeister 1879 glyptodon
"Neothoracophorus sp." = Glyptodon Owen 1839 glyptodon
Glyptodon cf. reticulatus Owen 1845 glyptodon
  - Mylodontidae
Lestodon cf. armatus Gervais 1855 edentate
 Tardigrada -
"Tardigrada indet." = Folivora
"Tardigrada indet." = Folivora Delsuc et al. 2001 edentate
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius hyodon Fischer 1814 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869 camel
Lama sp. Cuvier 1800 camel