Mogok cave (Pleistocene of Myanmar)

Where: Mandalay, Myanmar (22.9° N, 96.5° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 96.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• presumed age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

• cave deposit

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. L. Bacon; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1915. On the skull of an extinct mammal related to Aeluropus from a cave in the ruby mines at Mogok, Burma. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1915:425-428 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168038: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Ursidae
"Aelureidopus baconi n. gen. n. sp." = Ailuropoda baconi
"Aelureidopus baconi n. gen. n. sp." = Ailuropoda baconi Woodward 1915 giant panda