ammonites
Myaing 5, Pondaung Sandstone (Eocene to of Myanmar)

Also known as AMNH A12

Where: Myanmar (21.6° N, 94.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 95.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pondaung Sandstone Formation, Bartonian to Bartonian (40.4 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• successive beds of cherry-red, bright buff and cream-white earths interstratified with brown or buff sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

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 41282: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.07.2004

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