Where: Myanmar (20.0° N, 96.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 96.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• "The fossil was obtained from the oil-shale exposed in a quarry at Tichara, near Mepale, on the eastern side of the Dawna Hills, South Burma. Prof. Gregory had already obtained a number of fossils from the same area, of which some mollusca (see Annandale (1924), Records Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. lv. pt. 2 pp. 97-104, 1923) and a new genus and species of fossil fish (Annandale & Hora (1925), Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. lvi. pt. 3, pp. 204-209, 1924) have already been described. The snake now to be described comes from a horizon just below that in which the fish was found, and slightly higher than the molluscan beds. The beds have been briefly referred to, and the arguments for the Pliocene age given, in a paper by Prof. Gregory (April, 1923, 'Geological Magazine,' vol. lx. p. 152), to which Mr. W. N. Edwards contributed an appendix on some fossil plants from the same locality (Swinton, 1926:342-343)."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. E. Swinton. 1926. Daunophis langi, gen. et sp. n. (Pliocene, Burma). The Annals and magazine of Natural History; zoology, botany, and geology. 17:342-348 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28748: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 21.02.2003

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