First magnetostratigraphic study of the Pondaung Formation: Implications for the age of the Middle Eocene Anthropoids of Myanmar

Journal of Geology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 748-756

  Benammi, Mouloud ^a   Soe, Aung Naing ^b   Tun, Than ^c   Bo, Bo ^c   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^d   Ducrocq, Stephane ^e   Thein, Tin ^f   Wai, San ^c   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YANGON   (Myanmar)

^c Office of Strategic Studies   (Myanmar)

^d Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^e INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^f Taunggyi University   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; EOCENE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PRIMATE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

MYANMAR;

AMPHIPITHECUS MOGAUNGENSIS; BAHINIA PONDAUNGENSIS; MYANMARPITHECUS YARSHENSIS;

EID: 0036991075     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342868     Document Type: Article

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