Where: Myanmar (21.8° N, 94.7° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 9.6° N, 98.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pondaung Formation, Bartonian (41.0 - 37.7 Ma)
• The whole sequence of units was originally defined as the ‘Pondaung Sandstones’ by Cotter (1914), but the horizon yielding Eocene vertebrate fossils is now known as the ‘Upper Member’ of the Pondaung Formation (see Maung et al. 2005). The most recent age for this unit is ~39–38 Ma and so it can be regarded as middle Bartonian (see Tsubamoto et al. 2011).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone and red, white, yellow siliciclastic
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: collected by H. M. Lahiri, specimens housed in the Geological Museum, Calcutta
Primary reference: G. E. Pilgrim. 1925. The Perissodactyla of the Eocene of Burma. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 8(3):1-28 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41108: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 06.07.2004, edited by Takehisa Tsubamoto
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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"? Chasmotherium birmanicum n. sp." = Bahinolophus birmanicus
"? Chasmotherium birmanicum n. sp." = Bahinolophus birmanicus Pilgrim 1925 odd-toed ungulate two mandibular rami, belonging to the same individual and each containing the three molars and the last premolar
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