Also known as Sabapontaung (Sabapondaung) kyitchang; Paukkaung kyitchaung 1

Where: Myanmar (21.8° 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)

• this bed is approx 45 m above the base of the section at this locality

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•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 41336: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 13.07.2004, edited by Takehisa Tsubamoto and Patricia Holroyd

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