Also known as Paukkaung kyitchaung 2

Where: Myanmar (21.8° N, 94.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° N, 93.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Pondaung Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• 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).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone and red siliciclastic

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: this reference only gives a preliminary mention of this fossil, referring the more detailed analysis is in an article which is in press

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 41393: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 13.07.2004, edited by K. Christopher Beard, John Alroy, Patricia Holroyd, Takehisa Tsubamoto, Philip Mannion and Grace Varnham

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