Chaungsongyi 2 (AMNH A9): Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene, Myanmar
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Plantae indet. wood
Haeckel 1866
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Stegodon insignis
Falconer 1857
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| S. insignis birmanicus | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Myanmar |
| Coordinates: | 21.8° North, 94.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.8° North, 94.7° 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 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples,ferruginous argillaceous,carbonaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,permineralized,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: | 41266 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-09 13:08:35 | Last modified: | 2021-03-10 02:49:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-09 13:08:35 |
| 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] |