Also known as Krabi Mine

Where: Thailand (8.0° N, 99.1° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° N, 103.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Krabi Basin B2 Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• from the "main lignite seam" in the Krabi mine that also yielded the Wai Lek pit fauna; small lignite bed located about 20 m above the top of the main fossiliferous lignite layer

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lignite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: Y. Chaimanee, V. Suteethorn, J.-J. Jaeger and S. Ducrocq. 1997. A new Late Eocene anthropoid primate from Thailand. Nature 385:429-431 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88358: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.04.2009, edited by Philip Mannion

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