Also known as Bh1 (of Kyoto University)
Where: Myanmar (21.7° N, 94.6° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° N, 93.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• 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).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone and brown, red mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: specimens held at National Museum of Myanmar
Primary reference: R. L. Ciochon, P. D. Gingerich, G. F. Gunnell and E. L. Simons. 2001. Primate postcrania from the late middle Eocene of Myanmar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98(14):7672-7677 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41333: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 13.07.2004, edited by Takehisa Tsubamoto, K. Christopher Beard and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Yarshea cruenta n. gen. n. sp.2
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Pondaungimys anomaluropsis n. gen. n. sp.1
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Myanmarpithecus yarshensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Takai et al. 2001 monkey NMMP-KU 0001, upper and lower teeth
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Angiospermae | |
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