Tetma (Sitsayan stage): Rupelian, Myanmar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Surcula birmanica Vredenburg 1921
see common names

Geography
Country:Myanmar
Coordinates: 21.0° North, 95.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.8° North, 97.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Rupelian
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sitsayan
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC DATA: Unknown stratigraphic data other than approximating Stampian in age.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Unknown.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Include R. Bahadur, S. R. Rau, and the Burma Oil Co. and British Burma Petroleum Co. REPOSITORY: Unknown, probably Geological Survey of India, or BMNH.
Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Only include taxonomic groups (families of gastropoda and bivalvia) described in various articles entered. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, but designated to species and subgenus resolution in authoritative publication, and can be revised with more recent publications (e.g. Murkejee, 1939; Harzhauser, 2007).
Metadata
Database number:76591
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-11-23 18:41:43 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-11-23 18:41:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25894. E. Vredenburg. 1921. Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83-129 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]