Beme Dome (AMNH A6) (Pliocene of Myanmar)

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse