Description:
"...The Pondaung Formation in central Myanmar (Fig. 1) produces one
of the richest Paleogene mammalian faunas in Southeast Asia. Research
on the fauna, known for its diverse primates and ungulates, began in
the early part of the twentieth century (e.g., Pilgrim and Cotter, 1916;
Pilgrim, 1925, 1927, 1928; Colbert, 1937, 1938; Ba Maw et al., 1979;
Ciochon et al., 1985; Holroyd and Ciochon, 1995, 2000; Jaeger et al.,
1999; Chaimanee et al., 2000; Ducrocq et al., 2000; Tsubamoto et al.,
2000, 2002a, 2003; Takai et al., 2001; Tsubamoto, 2001; Shigehara et
al., 2002). However, the presence of mammalian predators was unknown
in the fauna until 1997 when creodonts were discovered. Since
1997, the Pondaung mammalian fauna has been studied collaboratively
by researchers from Myanmar, France, Japan, Thailand, and the United
States. In subsequent field seasons, many taxa have been added to the
fauna (Tsubamoto, 2001). In addition, geological study on the Pondaung
Formation provided a radiometric age of 37.2 Ma at one of the fossil
localities (Tsubamoto et al., 2002b), the first numerical date for the
fauna..."
Source/publisher:
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(2):502?506, June 2004
Date of Publication:
2004-06-00
Date of entry:
2008-01-01
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Language:
English