Also known as Krabi Mine
Where: Thailand (8.0° N, 99.1° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° N, 103.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Krabi Basin B2 Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• from the "main lignite seam" in the Krabi mine that also yielded the Wai Lek pit fauna; small lignite bed located about 20 m above the top of the main fossiliferous lignite layer
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lignite
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: Y. Chaimanee, V. Suteethorn, J.-J. Jaeger and S. Ducrocq. 1997. A new Late Eocene anthropoid primate from Thailand. Nature 385:429-431 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88358: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.04.2009, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Wailekia cf. orientale Ducrocq et al. 1995 primate | |
Siamopithecus eocaenus n. gen. n. sp.
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