Bahin 1, Pondaung Sandstone: Bartonian, Myanmar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Sivatitanops cotteri Pilgrim 1925
1 specimen
fragment of mandible with teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:Myanmar
Coordinates: 21.7° North, 94.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.0° North, 93.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Bartonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Bartonian
Age range of interval: 41.2 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pondaung
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: 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).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,yellow sandstone
Secondary lithology:red,white,yellow "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: successive beds of cherry-red, bright buff and cream-white earths interstratified with brown or buff sandstones
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: collected by H. M. Lahiri, specimens housed in the Geological Museum, Calcutta
Metadata
Database number:41177
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-07-07 13:34:35 Last modified:2016-03-17 05:54:16
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-07 13:34:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11063. 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]

Secondary references:

25257 M. R. Dawson, T. Tsubamoto, M. Takai, N. Egi, S. T. Tun and C. Sein. 2003. Rodents of the family Anomaluridae (Mammalia) from Southeast Asia (Middle Eocene, Pondaung Formation, Myanmar). Annals of Carnegie Museum 72(3):203-213 [T. Tsubamoto/T. Tsubamoto]