Reevaluation of some ungulate mammals from the Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar

Paleontological Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-243

  Tsubamoto, Takehisa ^a   Tun, Soe Thura ^b   Egi, Naoko ^a   Takai, Masanaru ^a   Shigehara, Nobuo ^a   Soe, Aung Naing ^b   Aung, Aye Ko ^c   Thein, Tin ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YANGON   (Myanmar)

^c Dagon University   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Asiohomacodon myanmarensis; Eocene; Hsanotherium; Indolophus; Indomeryx; Pondaung Formation

Indexed keywords

DENTITION; EOCENE; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; UNGULATE;

MYANMAR;

ARTIODACTYLA; ASIOHOMACODON; ASIOHOMACODON MYANMARENSIS; ATOPOTHERIUM; BOVIDAE; CERATOMORPHA; DICHOBUNIDAE; HELOHYIDAE; HSANOTHERIUM; HSANOTHERIUM PARVUM; INDOLOPHUS; INDOLOPHUS GUPTAI; INDOMERYX; INDOMERYX ARENAE; INDOMERYX COTTERI; INDOMERYX MINUS; INDOMERYX PILGRIMI; MACROSCELIDEA; MAMMALIA; PERISSODACTYLA; PROTOREODON PARVUS; RUMINANTIA; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344688344     PISSN: 13428144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2517/prpsj.7.219     Document Type: Article

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