Also known as Khorat

Where: Nakorn Ratchasima, Thailand (15.0° N, 102.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 102.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• mammal fossils from at least two beds within an interval of about 3 m; about 9 - 6 Ma based on biochronology, mostly involving comparisons with the Siwaliks (Chaimanee et al. 2006)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray sandstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• material recovered from a commercial sand pit over five years (Chaimanee et al. 2006)

Primary reference: Y. Chaimanee, V. Suteethorn, P. Jintasakul, C. Vidthayanon, B. Marandat and J.-J. Jaeger. 2004. A new orang-utan relative from the Late Miocene of Thailand. Nature 427:439-441 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67172: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.11.2006

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