New Evidence for Carboniferous Age of the Taungnyo Group Exposed in the Loikaw Area, Kayah State

Kyi Pyar Aung; R Owens; Ian Metcalfe

Abstract

New Carboniferous faunas from the Taungnyo Group, Loikaw area are reported. These include two new Late Tournaisian/early Visean (Lower Carboniferous/Mississippian) trilobite species, 'Liobole loikawensis', 'Crassibole karenniensis' and conodont faunas representative of the late Tournaisian 'Scaliognathous anchoralis' and 'Gnathodus typicus-Protognathodus' cordiformis conodonts zone. The age of the Taungnyo Group, Loikaw area is confirmed as Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) for the sampled part of this stratigraphic unit. The presence of Carboniferous in the Shan Plateau Region of Myanmar is confirmed. The trilobites are most closely related to species from deep water facies of late Tournaisian and Visean age from central and Western Europe. Biogeographic links between upper Tournaisian and early Visean conodonts on the Sibumasu Terrane and Laurentia and Eastern Australian Gondwana support a NW Australian Gondwana margin position for Sibumasu in the Late Paleozoic.

Original language	English
Pages	34-35
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	GEOSEA XIII - GeoMyanmar 2014: Thirteenth Regional Congress on Geology, Mineral and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia. Green Resources - Shared Responsibility - Yangon, Myanmar Duration: 10 Mar 2014 → 11 Mar 2014

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Conference	GEOSEA XIII - GeoMyanmar 2014: Thirteenth Regional Congress on Geology, Mineral and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia. Green Resources - Shared Responsibility
City	Yangon, Myanmar
Period	10/03/14 → 11/03/14

Keywords

Petroleum and Coal Geology
Palaeontology (incl Palynology)
Stratigraphy (incl Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy)

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Aung, K. P., Owens, R., & Metcalfe, I. (2014). New Evidence for Carboniferous Age of the Taungnyo Group Exposed in the Loikaw Area, Kayah State. 34-35. Abstract from GEOSEA XIII - GeoMyanmar 2014: Thirteenth Regional Congress on Geology, Mineral and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia. Green Resources - Shared Responsibility, Yangon, Myanmar. https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16587

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Aung, KP, Owens, R & Metcalfe, I 2014, 'New Evidence for Carboniferous Age of the Taungnyo Group Exposed in the Loikaw Area, Kayah State', GEOSEA XIII - GeoMyanmar 2014: Thirteenth Regional Congress on Geology, Mineral and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia. Green Resources - Shared Responsibility, Yangon, Myanmar, 10/03/14 - 11/03/14 pp. 34-35. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16587>

New Evidence for Carboniferous Age of the Taungnyo Group Exposed in the Loikaw Area, Kayah State. / Aung, Kyi Pyar; Owens, R; Metcalfe, Ian.
2014. 34-35 Abstract from GEOSEA XIII - GeoMyanmar 2014: Thirteenth Regional Congress on Geology, Mineral and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia. Green Resources - Shared Responsibility, Yangon, Myanmar.

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