Mogok cave: Pleistocene, Myanmar
collected by A. L. Bacon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Aelureidopus baconi n. gen., n. sp.
Woodward 1915
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1 individual | ||||||
| recombined as Ailuropoda baconi | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Myanmar | State/province: | Mandalay |
| Coordinates: | 22.9° North, 96.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.4° North, 96.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: presumed age | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: cave deposit | |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collectors: | A. L. Bacon |
Metadata
| Database number: | 168038 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-04-13 17:23:38 | Last modified: | 2015-04-13 17:23:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-04-13 17:23:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55028. | A. S. Woodward. 1915. On the skull of an extinct mammal related to Aeluropus from a cave in the ruby mines at Mogok, Burma. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1915:425-428 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |