Mogaung 5, Pondaung Sandstone, Myanmar
| Fundort: | Mogaung 5, Pondaung Sandstone, Myanmar, , Myanmar | |
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| Taxon: | Pondaungia cotteri aus der Familie Amphipithecidae | |
| Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
| Macrofossils, 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)., Successive beds of cherry-red, bright buff and cream-white earths interstratified with brown or buff sandstones | ||
| Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 38, und 41,3 Millionen Jahre aus der Pondaung Formation in Myanmar | |
| Geologie, Sratigraphie | Bartonian / Bartonian / Pondaung | |
| Koordinaten: | 21° 57 ' 0 '' N, 94° 33 ' 59 '' O | |
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Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturE. Colbert 1938, Fossil mammals from Burma in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 74, p. 255 - 436 |
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