NNE of Mauktet (Miocene to of Myanmar)

Where: Sagaing, Myanmar (22.5° N, 95.1° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 94.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Irrawaddy Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Geological Survey of India

Primary reference: W. E. Swinton. 1939. A new fossil fresh-water tortoise from Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 74(4):548-551 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179919: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 04.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Shweboemys pilgrimi n. gen. n. sp.
Shweboemys pilgrimi n. gen. n. sp. Swinton 1939 sideneck turtle
GSI 17255, holotype partial skull