Where: Myanmar (20.4° N, 94.9° E: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 94.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Irrawaddy Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Yenangyaung fossil beds. 4500 ft above base
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ferruginous, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
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 41258: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Mammalia | |
Stegodon elephantoides elephant |