Also known as Primate Resort Yarshe Kyitchaung UCMP V83116 Bh1

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).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone and paleosol/pedogenic, concretionary, red, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• many specimens housed at the National Museum of Myanmar

Primary reference: J. J. Jaeger, U. A. N. Soe, U. A. K. Aung, M. Benammi, Y. Chaimanee, R. M. Ducrocq, T. Tun, U. T. Thein, and S. Ducrocq. 1998. New Myanmar middle Eocene anthropoids. An Asian origin for catarrhines?. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie III. Sciences de la vie 321:953-959 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41331: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 12.07.2004, edited by Mark Bell and Philip Mannion

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