Where: Tebignan, Myanmar (19.2° N, 95.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 96.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Irrawaddy Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• The geological age of the Irrawaddy Formation in Tebingan area is estimated from the combination of several mammals’ genera with a well-established chronological distribution in the Siwalik deposits (Northern Pakistan), suggesting an early Late Miocene age (9–8Ma) (Takai et al. 2021; Longuet et al., 2023).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Myanmar-Japan joint investigation in 2017

• NMMP-KU-IR, Kyoto University, Irrawaddy collection, National Museum of Myanmar, Palaeontology, Yangon

Primary reference: R. Hirayama, T. Sonoda, M. Takai and T. Htike Thein. 2023. A new skull of the side-necked turtle (Order Testudines: Infraorder Pleurodira; Family Podocnemididae) from the Neogene of Myanmar. Waseda Global Forum 20:1 -10 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234041: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 14.03.2024

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