Pangan 1, Pondaung Sandstone (Eocene of Myanmar)

Where: Myanmar (21.7° N, 94.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° N, 93.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pondaung Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• 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).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone and red, white, yellow siliciclastic

• successive beds of cherry-red, bright buff and cream-white earths interstratified with brown or buff sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: collected by H. M. Lahiri and G. Cotter, specimens housed in the Geological Museum, Calcutta

Primary reference: G. E. Pilgrim and G. P. Cotter. 1916. Some newly discovered Eocene mammals from Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 47:42-77 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41110: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 06.07.2004, edited by Philip Mannion and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
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"Acrocarpoxylon ungeri" = Acrocarpus ungeri2
"Acrocarpoxylon ungeri" = Acrocarpus ungeri2 Gottwald 1994
MNHN.F.40121
Angiospermae
 Malvales - Dipterocarpaceae
Shoreoxylon panganense n. sp.2 Licht et al. 2014
MNHN.F.40122.L1/3, L2/3 & L3/3 (holotype)
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Cynometroxylon holdenii2 Gupta 1935 legume
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Sonneratiaceae
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Sivatitanops cotteri3 Pilgrim 1925 brontothere
last upper premolar
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
"Anthracokeryx moriturus" = Anthracotherium crassum4
"Anthracokeryx moriturus" = Anthracotherium crassum4 Pilgrim and Cotter 1916 anthracothere
upper molars
 Artiodactyla - Helohyidae
"Siamotherium pondaungensis" = Pakkokuhyus lahirii5
"Siamotherium pondaungensis" = Pakkokuhyus lahirii5 Pilgrim 1928 even-toed ungulate
NMMP-PGN-293
 Artiodactyla - Lophiomerycidae
Indomeryx arenae n. sp.4 Pilgrim 1928 ruminant
fragment of mandibular ramus containing the hinger half of m3
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Propterodon panganensis n. sp.1 de Bonis et al. 2018 creodont
NMMP-Pg1-2011-29 - type