List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia

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Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia
Ensenadan-Lujanian
10px Pliocene
10px Late Miocene
10px Miocene
10px Petaca Formation
10px Salla Formation
10px Santa Lucía Formation
10px Cretaceous
10px La Puerta Formation
10px Tucurú Group
10px Permian
10px Devonian
10px Silurian
10px Ordovician

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia.

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

See also

• Geology of Bolivia
• Gomphothere fossils in Bolivia
• South American land mammal ages
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Paraguay
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Peru

References

Bibliography

• Marshall, Larry G., and Thierry Sempere. 1991. The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: A review. Revista técnica de YPFB 12. 631–652. Accessed 2017-08-15.
• Suárez Riglos, Mario; Alejandra Dalenz Farjat, and Miguel Ángel Pérez Leyton. 2018. Fósiles y Facies de Bolivia, 1–146. Sincronía Diseño & Publicidad, Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Accessed 2019-03-03.ISBN:978-99974-79-68-6

Cajones Formation

• Novas, F.E.; D.F. Pais; D. Pol; I.S. Carvalho; A. Scanferla; A. Mones, and M.S. Riglos. 2009. Bizarre notosuchian crocodyliform with associated eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29. 1316–1320. Accessed 2019-03-03.

Casira Formation

• Cerdeño, Esperanza; Bárbara Vera; Gabriela Inés Schmidt; François Pujos, and Bernardino Mamaní Quispe. 2012. An almost complete skeleton of a new Mesotheriidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Miocene of Casira, Bolivia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10. 341–360. Accessed 2019-02-15.

Cerdas beds

• Croft, Darin A.; Alfredo A. Carlini; Martín R. Ciancio; Diego Brandoni; Nicholas E. Drew; Russell K. Engelman, and Federico Anaya. 2016. New mammal faunal data from Cerdas, Bolivia, a middle-latitude Neotropical site that chronicles the end of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum in South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36. e1163574. Accessed 2019-02-12.

Honda Group

• Croft, Darin A. 2007. The Middle Miocene (Laventan) Quebrada Honda Fauna, southern Bolivia and a description of its Notoungulates. Palaeontology 50. 277–303. Accessed 2017-05-04.
• Engelman, Russell K.; Federico Anaya, and Darin A. Croft. 2018. Australogale leptognathus, gen. et sp. nov., a second species of small sparassodont (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the middle Miocene locality of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution in press. _. Accessed 2018-10-01.
• Engelman, Russell K.; Federico Anaya, and Darin A. Croft. 2016. New palaeothentid marsupials (Paucituberculata) from the middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia, and their implications for the palaeoecology, decline and extinction of the Palaeothentoidea. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15. 787–820. Accessed 2019-02-12.
• Pujos, François; Gerardo De Iuliis; Bernardino Mamani Quispe, and Ruben Andrade Flores. 2014. Lakukullus anatisrostratus, gen. et sp. nov., a new massive nothrotheriid sloth (Xenarthra, Pilosa) from the middle Miocene of Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34. 1243–1248. Accessed 2019-02-12.

Lacayani fauna

• Billet, Guillaume; Christian De Muizon, and Bernardino Mamani Quispe. 2008. Late Oligocene mesotheriids (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from Salla and Lacayani (Bolivia): implications for basal mesotheriid phylogeny and distribution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152. 153–200. Accessed 2018-09-11.

Mesón Group

• Mángano, M.G., and L.A. Buatois. 2000. Ichnology, sedimentary dynamics, and sequence stratigraphy of the Mesón Group: A Cambrian macrotidal shallow-marine depositional system in northwest Argentina. Cambrian from the southern edge, Instituto Superior de Correlación Geológica, Miscelánea 6. 109–110. Accessed 2019-03-03.

Los Monos Formation

• Veizaga Saavedra, Juan G.; Daniel G. Poiré; Gustavo D. Vergani, and José A. Salfity. 2014. Formación Los Monos (Devónico), Cuenca de Tarija: Aproximación Geoquímica y Mineralógica del potencial como Shale Gas y Shale Oil, 93–115. IX Congreso de Exploración y Desarrollo de Hidrocarburos. Accessed 2019-03-03.

Ñuapua Formation

• Pardiñas, Ulyses F.J., and Carlos A. Galliari. 1998. Sigmodontinos (Rodentia, Muridae) del Holoceno inferior de Bolivia. Revista Española de Paleontología 13. 17–25. Accessed 2018-09-03.

La Puerta Formation

• Apesteguía, Sebastián, and P.A. Gallina. 2011. Tunasniyoj, a dinosaur tracksite from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of Bolivia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83. 267–277. Accessed 2019-03-03.

Puncoviscana Formation

• Do Campo, Margarita Diana. 1999. Mineralogía, geoquímica y geocronología de la Formación Puncoviscana (Neoproterozoico) entre los 23°30' y 25°50' de Latitud Sur, Noroeste de Argentina (PhD thesis), 1–287. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Accessed 2018-09-10.

Quehua Formation

• Baldellón P., Eddy; Michel Fornari; Félix Espinoza R., and Pierre Soler. 1994. Sucesión Estructural de la Zona Serranía de las Minas, 238–247. Memorias del XI Congreso Geológico de Bolivia. Accessed 2017-10-25.

Salla Formation

• Reguero, Marcelo A., and Esperanza Cerdeño. 2005. New late Oligocene Hegetotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from Salla, Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25. 674–684. Accessed 2018-09-11.
• Rincón, Ascanio D.; Bruce J. Shockey; Federico Anaya, and Andrés Solórzano. 2015. Palaeothentid Marsupials of the Salla Beds of Bolivia (Late Oligocene): Two New Species and Insights into the Post-Eocene Radiation of Palaeothentoids. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 22. 455–471. Accessed 2019-02-13.
• Shockey, Bruce J. 2017. New early diverging cingulate (Xenarthra: Peltephilidae) from the Late Oligocene of Bolivia and considerations regarding the origin of crown Xenarthra. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58. 371–396. Accessed 2019-02-12.

Santa Lucía Formation

• Buffetaut, É., and L.G. Marshall. 1991. A new crocodilian, Sebecus querejazus, nov. sp. (Mesosuchia, Sebecidae) from the Santa Lucía Formation (Early Paleocene) at Vila Vila, Southern Bolivia, 545–557. Revista Técnica de YPFB.
• Gaffney, Eugene S.; Peter A. Meylan; Roger C. Wood; Elwyn Simons, and Diogenes De Almeida Campos. 2011. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the family Podocnemididae. AMNH Bulletin 350. 1–237. Accessed 2017-08-15.
• Gayet, Mireille; Larry G. Marshall, and Thierry Sempere. 1991. The Mesozoic and Paleocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review. Revista técnica de YPFB 12. 393–433. Accessed 2017-08-15.
• Jiménez, Grisel. 2012. Estratigrafía, facies y ambientes evolutivos de depósito del Paleógeno Inferior: Formación Santa Lucía (Sinclinal de Miraflores - Sección Cayara, Potosí), 1–23. .. Accessed 2017-08-15.
• De Muizon, Christian; Sandrine Ladevèze; Charlène Selva; Robin Vignaud, and Florent Goussard. 2018. Allqokirus australis (Sparassodonta, Metatheria) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia) and the rise of the metatherian carnivorous radiation in South America. Geodiversitas 40. 363–459. Accessed 2019-02-11.
• Rage, J.C.. 1991. Gymnophionan Amphibia from the early Paleocene (Santa Lucía Formation) of Tiupampa (Bolivia). The oldest known Gymnophiona. Revista técnica de YPFB 12. 499–501. Accessed 2017-08-15.
• Rage, J.C.. 1991. Squamate Reptiles from the early Paleocene of Tiupampa area (Santa Lucía Formation), Bolivia. Revista técnica de YPFB 12. 503–508. Accessed 2017-08-15.
• Renner, Sven, and Carlos Velasco. 2000. Geología e hidrogeología del Valle Central de Cochabamba. Boletín del Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería 34. 1–113. Accessed 2017-08-15.
• Sempere, Thierry; R.F. Butler; D.R. Richards; L.G. Marshall; W. Sharp, and C.C. Swisher. 1997. Stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Cretaceous-lower Paleogene strata in Bolivia and northwest Argentina. GSA Bulletin 109. 709–727. Accessed 2017-08-15.

Tarija Formation

• Machado, Leonardo F.; Yuri L.R. Leite; Alexandre U. Christoff, and Lilian G. Giugliano. 2014. Phylogeny and biogeography of tetralophodont rodents of the tribe Oryzomyini (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). Zoologica Scripta 43. 119–130. Accessed 2019-02-12.

Toro Toro Formation

• Apesteguía, Sebastián; Silvina De Valais; Giovanni Ríos Cordero, and Omar Medina Ramírez. 2011. New Ichnological Record from the Late Campanian Toro Toro Formation at Toro Toro, Potosí (bolivia): First probable Dromaeosaurid Tracks from South America. Ameghiniana 48. 662–667. Accessed 2019-03-03.
• Lockley, M.G.; A.S. Schulp; C.A. Meyer; G. Leonardi, and D.K. Mamani. 2002. Titanosaurid trackways from the Upper Cretaceous of Bolivia: evidence for large manus, wide-gauge locomotion and gregarious behaviour. Cretaceous Research 23. 383–400. Accessed 2019-03-03.

Umala Formation

• Pujos, François; Gerardo De Iuliis; Bernardino Mamani Quispe; Sylvain Adnet; Ruben Andrade Flores; Guillaume Billet; Marcos Fernández Monescillo; Laurent Marivaux, and Philippe, Mercedes B. Prámparo and Pierre-Olivier Antoine Münch. 2016. A new nothrotheriid xenarthran from the early Pliocene of Pomata-Ayte (Bolivia): new insights into the caniniform–molariform transition in sloths. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178. 679–712. Accessed 2019-02-12.

Yecua & Petaca Formations

• Hernández, R.; T. Jordan; A. Dalenz Farjat; L. Echavarría; B. Idelman, and J. Reynolds. 2002. Edades, distribución, controles tectónicos y eustáticos de las ingresiones marinas paranense y caribeana en el sur de Bolivia y Argentina, 1–27. V Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología. Accessed 2018-09-10.

Further reading

• Rocha, Emilio. 2013. Estilos estructurales del Subandino Sur de Bolivia (PhD thesis), 1–204. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Accessed 2018-09-10.

Mesozoic

• L. Branisa. 1968. Hallazgo del amonite Neolobites en la Caliza Miraflores y de huellas de dinosaurios en la formación El Molino y su significado para la determinación de la edad del "Grupo Puca" [Discovery of the ammonite Neolobites in the Miraflores Limestone and of dinosaur footprints in the El Molino Formation and their significance for the determination of the age of the "Puca Group"]. Boletín de Instituto Boliviano del Petróleo 8(1):16-29
• M. Gayet, L. G. Marshall, and T. Sempere. 1991. The Mesozoic and Paleocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review. In R. Suarez-Soruco (ed.), Fosiles y Facies de Bolivia. Volumen 1—Vertebrados. Revista Técnica de YPFB 12(3-4):393-433

Paleozoic

• F. G. Acenolaza. 1980. Aportes a la paleontologia del Ordovicico Argentino. I. Merlinia farouxi nov. sp. (Trilobita - Asaphidae) de Azul Pampa, Provincia de Jujuy. Acta Geologica Lilloana 15(2):49-54
• C. Babin and L. Branisa. 1987. Ribeiria, Peelrophon y otros molluscos del Ordovíco de Bolivia. 4˚ Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología 1:119-129
• J. L. Benedetto. 2013. Upper Ordovician Brachiopods from the San Benito Formation, Cordillera del Tunari, Bolivia. Ameghiniana 50(4):418-428
• J. L. Benedetto. 2007. New Upper Cambrian-Tremadoc rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from northwestern Argentina: evolutionary trends and early diversification of plectorthoideans in the Andean Gondwana. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):261-285
• L. Branisa. 1965. Los fosiles guias de Bolivia: I. Paleozoico. Boletin de Servicio Geologico de Bolivia. La Paz, Bolivia 6:1-282
• G. D. Edgecombe and L. Ramskold. 1994. Earliest Devonian phacopide trilobites from central Bolivia. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 68(3/4):397-410
• D. Edwards, E. M. Morel, F. Paredes, D. B. Ganuza, and A. Zuniga. 2001. Plant assemblages from the Silurian of southern Bolivia and their palaeogeographic significance. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135:229-250
• N. Eldredge and L. Branisa. 1980. Calmoniid trilobites of the Lower Devonian Scaphiocoelia Zone of Bolivia, with remarks on related species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 165(2):181-289
• C. C. Emig and Z. Herrera. 2006. Dignomia munsterii (Brachiopoda, Lingulata) from the Ordovician of Bolivia, with redescription of the genus. Geodiversitas 28(2):227-237
• B.-D. Erdtmann, B. Weber, H.-P. Schultze and S. Egenhoff. 2000. A possible agnathan plate from the lower Arenig (Lower Ordovician) of South Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(2):394-399
• C. J. Fischer. 1969. Deux bellerophontacées nouveaux de Bolive. Bulletin de Societé géologique, France 7:605-608
• P. Y. Gagnier, S. Turner, L. Friman, M. Suarez-Riglos, and P. Janvier. 1988. The Devonian vertebrate and mollusc fauna from Seripona (Dept. of Chiquisaca, Bolivia). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 176(2):269-297
• V. Havlicek and L. Branisa. 1980. Ordovician brachiopods of Bolivia: Succession of assemblages, climate control, affinity to Anglo-French and Bohemian provinces. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(1):1-54
• R. Iannuzzi, M. Guerra-Sommer, E. Diaz-Martinez and G.W. Grader. 1997. Presenca do genero Glossopteris no Neopermiano da Bolivia. Revista Universidade Guarulhos - Geociencias II (no. especial) 1-225
• P. E. Isaacson. 1977. Devonian stratigraphy and brachiopod paleontology of Bolivia. part A: Orthida and Strophomenida. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 155(5-6):133-192
• G. Laubacher, A. J. Boucot, and J. Gray. 1982. Additions to Silurian stratigraphy, lithofacies, biogeography and paleontology of Bolivia and southern Peru. Journal of Paleontology 56(5):1138-1170
• B. Lefebvre and P. R. Racheboeuf. 2007. First report of mitrate Stylophorans (Echinodermata) in the Lower Devonian of Bolivia. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero (8)239-244
• C. Mitchell, E. D. Brussa, and J. Maletz. 2008. A mixed Isograptid-Didymograptid Graptolite assemblage from the Middle Ordovician of West Gondwana (NW Bolivia): implications for Graptolite Paleoecology. Journal of Paleontology 82(6):1114-1126
• B. Petriella and R. Suarez Soruco. 1989. Presencia de plantas terrestres, probablemente vosculares, en las formaciones Kirusillas y Tarabuco (Lampayano-Silurico Superior) de Bolivia. Revista Tecnica de YPFB 10:119-121
• R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136
• A. Pradel, I. J. Sansom, P.-Y. Gagnier, R. Cespedes, and P. Janvier. 2007. The tail of the Ordovician fish Scabambaspis. Biology Letters 3:72-75
• A. Pribyl and J. Vanek. 1980. Ordovician trilobites of Bolivia. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(2):1-90
• U. Rehfeld and J. Mehl. 1989. Andinodesma radiata n. gen. n. sp., a grammysiid taxon from the Lower Devonian Catavi-Formation (Bolivia) and its autecological and phylogenetic implications. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 63(3/4):263-279
• T. M. Sánchez and C. Babin. 2005. Lower Ordovician bivalves from southern Bolivia: paleobiogeographic affinities. Ameghiniana 42(3):559-566
• T. M. Sanchez, B. Waisfeld, and J. L. Benedetto. 1991. Lithofacies, taphonomy, and brachiopod assemblages in the Silurian of western Argentina: A review of Malvinokaffric Realm communities. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 4(4):307-329
• R. Suarez Soruco. 1976. El sistema ordovicico en Bolivia. Revista Tecnica YPF Bolivia 5(2):111-123
• J. R. Thompson, W. I. Ausich, and L. Smith. 2013. Echinoderms from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) of Bolivia (Malvinokaffric Realm). Journal of Paleontology 87(1):166-175
• M. Toro and S. Fernandez. 1979. Los fosiles de la formacion Pircancha aflorante en Chilcayo, Provincio Mendez - Depto. Tarija. Revista de la Academia Nacional de Ciencas de Bolivia 163-169
• B. G. Waisfeld and T. M. Sanchez. 1993. Trilobites Siluricos de la Formacion Lipeon en el noroeste Argentino (Sierra de Zapla, Provincia de Jujuy). Ameghiniana 30(1):77-90
• R. Wolfart. 1968. Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung fuer Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie. Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch 74:5-201
• G. D. Wood. 1997. The acritarch Proteolobus walli gen et sp. nov. from the Devonian Iquiri Formation of Bolivia: a possible coenobial alga. Micropaleontology 43(3):325-331

External links

• Geologic map of Bolivia

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