List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia

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

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia.

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

Group	Formation	Period	Notes
	Ñuapua Formation	Lujanian-Holocene
	Tarija Formation	Ensenadan-Lujanian
	Ulloma Formation	Ensenadan-Lujanian
	Charana Formation	Uquian
	Sacaba Formation	Uquian
	Umala Formation	Montehermosan-Ensenadan
	La Paz Formation	Montehermosan-Uquian
	Casira Formation	Montehermosan-Chapadmalalan
	Remedios Formation	Montehermosan
	Solimões Formation	Huayquerian-Montehermosan
	Muyu Huasi Formation	Huayquerian
	Quehua Formation	Huayquerian
	Mauri Formation	Colloncuran-Huayquerian
Totora	Rosa Pata Formation	Late Miocene
	Yecua Formation	Mayoan
Honda		Laventan
	Choquecota Formation	Laventan
	Cerdas beds	Colloncuran
	Nazareno Formation	Colloncuran
	Petaca Formation	Deseadan
	Salla Formation	Deseadan
	Cayara Formation	Casamayoran
	Santa Lucía Formation	Maastrichtian-Danian (Tiupampan)
Puca	El Molino Formation	Maastrichtian
	Toro Toro Formation	Late Campanian
	Chaunaca Formation	Campanian
	Cajones Formation	Turonian-Santonian
	Aroifilla Formation	Coniacian-Early Santonian
	La Puerta Formation	Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
	Tacurú	Late Triassic
	Upper Chutani Formation	Kungurian
	Copacabana Formation	Moscovian-Artinskian
	Iquiri Formation	Eifelian-Frasnian
	Cha-Kjeri Formation	Eifelian-Givetian
	Huamampampa Formation	Pragian-Emsian
	Los Monos Formation	Eifelian-Givetian
	Sica Sica Formation	Eifelian
	Belén Formation	Emsian
	Gamoneda Formation	Emsian
	Icla Formation	Pragian-Emsian
	Santa Rosa Formation	Lochkovian
	Vila Vila Formation	Lochkovian-Pragian
	Catavi Formation	Pridoli-Emsian
	Pampa Formation	Tremadocian-Eifelian
	Lipeón Formation	Telychian-Pridoli
	Kirusillas Formation	Homerian
	Ananea Formation	Silurian
	Llallagua Formation	Llandovery
	Cancañiri Formation	Katian-Rhuddanian
	La Ciénega Formation	Sandbian-Katian
	Santiago Formation	Sandbian-Katian
Cochabamba	San Benito Formation	Katian
	Anzaldo Formation	Katian
	Coroíco Formation	Darriwilian
	Sella Formation	Dapingian-Darriwilian
	Independencia Formation	Dapingian
	San Lorenzo Formation	Dapingian
	Obispo Formation	Dapingian
	Pircancha Formation	Floian-Dapingian
	Iscayachi Formation (formerly Guanacuno Formation)	Tremadocian
	Tarija Concha Formation	Tremadocian
	Tucumilla Formation	Tremadocian
Mesón	Lizoite Formation	Tremadocian
	Campanario Formation	Cambrian-Tremadocian
	Chahualmayoc Formation	Cambrian
	Puncoviscana Formation	Ediacaran-Cambrian

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

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Cajones Formation

• Novas, F.E.; Pais, D.F.; Pol, D.; Carvalho, I.S.; Scanferla, A.; Mones, A.; Riglos, M.S. (2009), "Bizarre notosuchian crocodyliform with associated eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of Bolivia", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29 (4): 1316–1320, Bibcode:2009JVPal..29.1316N, doi:10.1671/039.029.0409, hdl:11336/54001, retrieved 2019-03-03

Casira Formation

• Cerdeño, Esperanza; Vera, Bárbara; Schmidt, Gabriela Inés; Pujos, François; Mamaní Quispe, Bernardino (2012), "An almost complete skeleton of a new Mesotheriidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Miocene of Casira, Bolivia", Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 10 (2): 341–360, Bibcode:2012JSPal..10..341C, doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.569576, hdl:11336/60297, retrieved 2019-02-15

Cerdas beds

• Croft, Darin A.; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Ciancio, Martín R.; Brandoni, Diego; Drew, Nicholas E.; Engelman, Russell K.; Anaya, Federico (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 (5): e1163574, Bibcode:2016JVPal..36E3574C, doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1163574, hdl:11336/49745, retrieved 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, Bibcode:2007Palgy..50..277C, doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00610.x, retrieved 2017-05-04
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Lacayani fauna

• Billet, Guillaume; De Muizon, Christian; Mamani Quispe, Bernardino (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, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00388.x, retrieved 2018-09-11

Mesón Group

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

Los Monos Formation

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

Ñuapua Formation

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

La Puerta Formation

• Apesteguía, Sebastián; Gallina, P.A. (2011), "Tunasniyoj, a dinosaur tracksite from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of Bolivia" (PDF), Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 83 (1): 267–277, doi:10.1590/S0001-37652011000100015, PMID 21437385, retrieved 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) (PDF), Universidad de Buenos Aires, pp. 1–287, retrieved 2018-09-10

Quehua Formation

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

Salla Formation

• Reguero, Marcelo A.; Cerdeño, Esperanza (2005), "New late Oligocene Hegetotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from Salla, Bolivia", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25 (3): 674–684, doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0674:NLOHMN]2.0.CO;2, retrieved 2018-09-11
• Rincón, Ascanio D.; Shockey, Bruce J.; Anaya, Federico; Solórzano, Andrés (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 (4): 455–471, doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9295-8, retrieved 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 (2): 371–396, retrieved 2019-02-12

Santa Lucía Formation

• Buffetaut, É.; Marshall, L.G. (1991), A new crocodilian, Sebecus querejazus, nov. sp. (Mesosuchia, Sebecidae) from the Santa Lucía Formation (Early Paleocene) at Vila Vila, Southern Bolivia, Revista Técnica de YPFB, pp. 545–557
• Gaffney, Eugene S.; Meylan, Peter A.; Wood, Roger C.; Simons, Elwyn; De Almeida Campos, Diogenes (2011), "Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the family Podocnemididae" (PDF), AMNH Bulletin, 350: 1–237, retrieved 2017-08-15
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• Jiménez, Grisel (2012), Estratigrafía, facies y ambientes evolutivos de depósito del Paleógeno Inferior: Formación Santa Lucía (Sinclinal de Miraflores - Sección Cayara, Potosí) (PDF), ., pp. 1–23, retrieved 2017-08-15
• De Muizon, Christian; Ladevèze, Sandrine; Selva, Charlène; Vignaud, Robin; Goussard, Florent (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 (16): 363–459, doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a16, retrieved 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, retrieved 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, retrieved 2017-08-15
• Renner, Sven; Velasco, Carlos (2000), "Geología e hidrogeología del Valle Central de Cochabamba" (PDF), Boletín del Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, 34: 1–113, retrieved 2017-08-15
• Sempere, Thierry; Butler, R.F.; Richards, D.R.; Marshall, L.G.; Sharp, W.; Swisher, C.C. (1997), "Stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Cretaceous-lower Paleogene strata in Bolivia and northwest Argentina" (PDF), GSA Bulletin, 109 (6): 709–727, Bibcode:1997GSAB..109..709S, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0709:SACOUC>2.3.CO;2, retrieved 2017-08-15

Tarija Formation

• Machado, Leonardo F.; Leite, Yuri L.R.; Christoff, Alexandre U.; Giugliano, Lilian G. (2014), "Phylogeny and biogeography of tetralophodont rodents of the tribe Oryzomyini (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)", Zoologica Scripta, 43 (2): 119–130, doi:10.1111/zsc.12041, retrieved 2019-02-12

Toro Toro Formation

• Apesteguía, Sebastián; De Valais, Silvina; Ríos Cordero, Giovanni; Medina Ramírez, Omar (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 (4): 662–667, doi:10.5710/AMGH.v48i4(341), hdl:11336/9519, retrieved 2019-03-03
• Lockley, M.G.; Schulp, A.S.; Meyer, C.A.; Leonardi, G.; Mamani, D.K. (2002), "Titanosaurid trackways from the Upper Cretaceous of Bolivia: evidence for large manus, wide-gauge locomotion and gregarious behaviour", Cretaceous Research, 23 (3): 383–400, Bibcode:2002CrRes..23..383L, doi:10.1006/cres.2002.1006, retrieved 2019-03-03

Umala Formation

• Pujos, François; De Iuliis, Gerardo; Mamani Quispe, Bernardino; Adnet, Sylvain; Flores, Ruben Andrade; Billet, Guillaume; Fernández Monescillo, Marcos; Marivaux, Laurent; Münch, Philippe, Mercedes B. Prámparo and Pierre-Olivier Antoine (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 (3): 679–712, doi:10.1111/zoj.12429, hdl:11336/182949, retrieved 2019-02-12{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Yecua & Petaca Formations

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

Further reading

• Rocha, Emilio (2013), Estilos estructurales del Subandino Sur de Bolivia (PhD thesis) (PDF), Universidad de Buenos Aires, pp. 1–204, retrieved 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
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• 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