Where: Lampang, Thailand (18.3° N, 99.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 99.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Na Khaem Formation, MN 6 (13.7 - 12.8 Ma)

• from the "Q and K coal zones," which range "from 10 to 30 m and 15 to 30 m, respectively" and are "conventionally considered as Middle Miocene and magnetostratigraphic data correlate these strata with chron C5aar, between 13.3 and 13.1 Ma" (i.e., MN 6)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lignite and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

• "discovered through surface survey"

Primary reference: Y. Chaimanee, R. Lebrun, C. Yamee and J.-J. Jaeger. 2011. A new Middle Miocene tarsier from Thailand and the reconstruction of its orbital morphology using a geometric– morphometric method. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:1956-1963 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113430: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.07.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

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