Mae Moh Coal Mine, Thailand


Fundort: Mae Moh Coal Mine, Thailand, Lampang, Thailand
Taxon: Tarsius sirindhornae aus der Familie Tarsiidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, 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), "the main lignite-bearing units [are] interbedded with lacustrine mudstones and minor sandstones"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 12,75 und 13,65 Millionen Jahre aus der Na Khaem Formation in Thailand
Geologie, Sratigraphie Serravallian / MN 6 / Na Khaem
Koordinaten: 18° 16 ' 59 '' N, 99° 39 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

Y. Chaimanee, R. Lebrun, C. Yamee, 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, p. 1956 - 1963, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2062

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