First record of an Anthracobunidae (Mammalia, ?Tethytheria) from the Eocene of the Pondaung Formation, Myanmar

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 330, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 725-730

  Ducrocq, Stéphane ^a   Naing Soe, Aung ^b   Bo, Bo ^c   Benammi, Mouloud ^a   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^d   Tun, Than ^c   Thein, Tin ^b   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Department of Geology   (Myanmar)

^c Ministry of Defence   (Myanmar)

^d 10400 ^*  (Thailand)

Author keywords

Anthracobunidae; Mammals; Middle Eocene; Myanmar; Pondaung

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; MAMMAL; NEW RECORD;

MYANMAR;

ANTHRACOBUNIDAE; HSANOTHERIUM PARVUM; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0342297889     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(00)00187-7     Document Type: Article

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