Myaungu (Sitsayan stage): Rupelian, Myanmar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Duplicaria) maunguensis n. sp. Vredenburg 1921
Vredenburg 1921
Terebra (Myurella) promensis n. sp. Vredenburg 1921
Vredenburg 1921
Gastropoda - Personidae
Persona reticulata (Linnaeus 1767)
Vredenburg 1921
SUBSPECIES: P. reticulata subclathrata
    = Distorsio decipiens Reeve 1844
Harzhauser et al. 2009
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella pinfoldi n. sp. Vredenburg 1921
Vredenburg 1921
see common names

Geography
Country:Myanmar
Coordinates: 20.5° North, 94.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.1° North, 97.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Rupelian
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sitsayan
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC DATA: Unknown stratigraphic data other than approximating Stampian in age.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Unknown.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Include R. Bahadur, S. R. Rau, and the Burma Oil Co. and British Burma Petroleum Co. REPOSITORY: Unknown, probably Geological Survey of India, or BMNH.
Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Only include taxonomic groups (families of gastropoda and bivalvia) described in various articles entered. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, but designated to species and subgenus resolution in authoritative publication, and can be revised with more recent publications (e.g. Murkejee, 1939; Harzhauser, 2007).
Metadata
Database number:76599
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-11-23 18:54:22 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-11-23 18:54:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25894. E. Vredenburg. 1921. Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83-129 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

36478 M. Harzhauser, M. Euter, W. E. Piller, B. Berning, A. Kroh and O. Mandic. 2009. Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83:333-372 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
25900 E. Vredenburg. 1921. Analysis of the Singu fauna founded on Rao Bahadur S. Rama Rau's collections. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:331-342 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26048 E. Vredenburg. 1921. Note on the marine fossils collected by Mr Pinfold in the Garo Hills. Records of the Geological Survey of India 51(3):303-337 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]
26049 E. Vredenburg. 1921. Note on the Marine fossils collected by Mr. Pinfold in the Garo Hills. Records of the Geological Survey of India 51(4):339-361 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]