Also known as Pauk-kaing

Where: Myanmar (21.8° N, 94.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° N, 93.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pondaung Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 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. 1928. The Artiodactyla of the Eocene of Burma. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 13:1-39 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41143: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 07.07.2004, edited by John Alroy and Bethany Allen

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