Yenangyaung 5 (AMNH A5): Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene, Myanmar
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet. wood
Haeckel 1866
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Stegodon elephantoides
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Myanmar |
Coordinates: | 20.4° North, 94.9° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 19.4° North, 94.9° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene |
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 0.78100 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | current ripples,ferruginous argillaceous,carbonaceous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: coarse, current bedded sands, at the base there is usually a well-marked "red bed" or old lateritic land surface. Associated with this band either above ir or below, there is frequently a bed of white sand rich in kaolin. Interbedded bands or even beds of some thickness of a clay, which approaches pipe-clay in general characters, are frequent in the lower beds and again in the higher part of the Irrawadian. The Irrawadian is famous for the enormous quanitity of silicified fossil wood which it contains...The series has also yielded a number of interesting vertebrate remains | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | AMNH |
Metadata
Database number: | 41258 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-07-09 11:38:40 | Last modified: | 2021-03-10 02:54:09 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-09 11:38:40 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11084. | E. Colbert. 1938. Fossil mammals from Burma in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74:255-436 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |