Sedimentary facies of the late Middle Eocene Pondaung Formation (central Myanmar) and the palaeoenvironments of its Anthropoid Primates;Faciès sédimentaires de la formation de Pondaung (fin Éocène moyen, Myanmar central) et paléoenvironnements des primates anthropödes

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 153-160

  Soe, Aung Naing ^a   Myitta, ^a   Tun, Soe Thura ^b   Aung, Aye Ko ^b   Thein, Tin ^a   Marandat, Bernard ^c   Ducrocq, Stéphane ^c   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YANGON   (Myanmar)

^b Dagon University   (Myanmar)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Anthropoid primates; Eocene; Fluvio deltaic; Myanmar; Pondaung Formation; Swale fill

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; EOCENE; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

MYANMAR;

ANTHROPOIDEA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0013405607     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0683(02)00020-9     Document Type: Article

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