List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia explained

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia.

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

Group	Formation	Period	Notes
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See also

• • 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

Cajones Formation

Casira Formation

Cerdas beds

Honda Group

Lacayani fauna

Mesón Group

Los Monos Formation

Ñuapua Formation

La Puerta Formation

Puncoviscana Formation

Quehua Formation

Salla Formation

Santa Lucía Formation

Tarija Formation

Toro Toro Formation

Umala Formation

Yecua & Petaca Formations

Further reading

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Nuapua&group_formation_member=Nuapua Ñuapua Formation
2. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Tarija&group_formation_member=Tarija Tarija Formation
3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Ulloma&group_formation_member=Ulloma Ulloma Formation
4. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Charana&group_formation_member=Charana Charana Formation
5. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Sacaba&group_formation_member=Sacaba Sacaba Formation
6. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Umala&group_formation_member=Umala Umala Formation
7. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=La%20Paz&group_formation_member=La%20Paz La Paz Formation
8. Cerdeño et al., 2012
9. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Casira&group_formation_member=Casira Casira Formation
10. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Remedios&group_formation_member=Remedios Remedios Formation
11. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Solimoes&group_formation_member=Solimoes Solimões Formation
12. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Muyu%20Huasi&group_formation_member=Muyu%20Huasi Muyu Huasi Formation
13. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Quehua&group_formation_member=Quehua Quehua Formation
14. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Mauri&group_formation_member=Mauri Mauri Formation
15. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=Totora&group_formation_member=Totora Totora Group
16. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=collectionSearch&geological_group=Totora&formation=Rosa%20Pata Rosa Pata Formation
17. Hernández et al., 2002
18. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Yecua&group_formation_member=Yecua Yecua Formation
19. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=Honda&group_formation_member=Honda Honda Group
20. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Choquecota&group_formation_member=Choquecota Choquecota Formation
21. Croft et al., 2016, p.2
22. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Nazareno&group_formation_member=Nazareno Nazareno Formation
23. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Petaca&group_formation_member=Petaca Petaca Formation
24. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Salla&group_formation_member=Salla Salla Formation
25. Marshall & Sempere, 1991, p.633
26. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Santa%20Lucia&group_formation_member=Santa%20Lucia Santa Lucía Formation
27. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=Puca&formation=El%20Molino&group_formation_member=El%20Molino El Molino Formation
28. Apesteguía et al., 2011, p.662
29. Lockley et al., 2002, p.389
30. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=Upper%20Puca&formation=Toro%20Toro&group_formation_member=Toro%20Toro Toro Toro Formation
31. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=Upper%20Puca&formation=Chaunaca&group_formation_member=Chaunaca Chaunaca Formation
32. Novas et al., 2009, p.1316
33. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Cajones&group_formation_member=Cajones Cajones Formation
34. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Aroifilla&group_formation_member=Aroifilla Aroifilla Formation
35. Apesteguía & Gallina, 2011, p.268
36. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=La%20Puerta&group_formation_member=La%20Puerta La Puerta Formation
37. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=Tacur%FA&group_formation_member=Tacur%FA Tacurú Group
38. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Upper%20Chutani&group_formation_member=Upper%20Chutani Upper Chutani Formation
39. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Copacabana&group_formation_member=Copacabana Copacabana Formation
40. Veizaga Saavedra et al., 2014, p.96
41. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Iquiri&group_formation_member=Iquiri Iquiri Formation
42. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Cha-Kjeri&group_formation_member=Cha-Kjeri Cha-Kjeri Formation
43. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Huamampampa&group_formation_member=Huamampampa Huamampampa Formation
44. Veizaga Saavedra et al., 2014, p.101
45. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Los%20Monos&group_formation_member=Los%20Monos Los Monos Formation
46. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Sica%20Sica&group_formation_member=Sica%20Sica Sica Sica Formation
47. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Belen&group_formation_member=Belen Belén Formation
48. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Gamoneda&group_formation_member=Gamoneda Gamoneda Formation
49. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Icla&group_formation_member=Icla Icla Formation
50. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Santa%20Rosa&group_formation_member=Santa%20Rosa Santa Rosa Formation
51. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Vila%20Vila&group_formation_member=Vila%20Vila Vila Vila Formation
52. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Catavi&group_formation_member=Catavi Catavi Formation
53. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Pampa&group_formation_member=Pampa Pampa Formation
54. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Lipeon&group_formation_member=Lipeon Lipeón Formation
55. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Kirusillas&group_formation_member=Kirusillas Kirusillas Formation
56. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Ananea&group_formation_member=Ananea Ananea Formation
57. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Llallagua&group_formation_member=Llallagua Llallagua Formation
58. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Cancaniri&group_formation_member=Cancaniri Cancañiri Formation
59. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=La%20Cienega&group_formation_member=La%20Cienega La Ciénega Formation
60. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=8847 Santiago Formation
61. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=San%20Benito&group_formation_member=San%20Benito San Benito Formation
62. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Anzaldo&group_formation_member=Anzaldo Anzaldo Formation
63. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Coroico&group_formation_member=Coroico Coroíco Formation
64. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Sella&group_formation_member=Sella Sella Formation
65. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Independencia&group_formation_member=Independencia Independencia Formation
66. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=San%20Lorenzo&group_formation_member=San%20Lorenzo San Lorenzo Formation
67. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Obispo&group_formation_member=Obispo Obispo Formation
68. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Pircancha&group_formation_member=Pircancha Pircancha Formation
69. Suárez Riglos et al., 2018, pp.36-58
70. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Iscayachi&group_formation_member=Iscayachi Iscayachi Formation
71. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Guanacuno&group_formation_member=Guanacuno Guanacuno Formation
72. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Guanacuna&group_formation_member=Guanacuna Guanacuna (sic) Formation
73. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Tarija%20Concha&group_formation_member=Tarija%20Concha Tarija Concha Formation
74. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Tucumilla&group_formation_member=Tucumilla Tucumilla Formation
75. Mángano & Buatois, 2000
76. Do Campo, 1999