Where: Myanmar (20.5° N, 95.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 95.0° E)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Irrawaddy Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• post-Pontian, early Pliocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ferruginous, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized, replaced with silica
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41262: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Mammalia | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse |