Near Than-u-daw (Pliocene to of Myanmar)

Also known as Than-udaw AMNH A8

Where: Myanmar (21.7° N, 94.8° E: paleocoordinates 20.6° N, 94.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Irrawaddy Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: E. Colbert. 1938. Fossil mammals from Burma in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74:255-436 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201705: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.05.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Hypselephas hysudricus" = Elephas
"Hypselephas hysudricus" = Elephas elephant