The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea

S Bajpai, RF Kay, BA Williams… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Undisputed anthropoids appear in the fossil record of Africa and Asia by the middle Eocene,
about 45 Ma. Here, we report the discovery of an early Eocene eosimiid anthropoid primate …

[HTML][HTML] New Eocene primate from Myanmar shares dental characters with African Eocene crown anthropoids

JJ Jaeger, O Chavasseau, V Lazzari… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent discoveries of older and phylogenetically more primitive basal anthropoids in China
and Myanmar, the eosimiiforms, support the hypothesis that Asia was the place of origins of …

Late Middle Eocene primate from Myanmar and the initial anthropoid colonization of Africa

Y Chaimanee, O Chavasseau… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Reconstructing the origin and early evolutionary history of anthropoid primates (monkeys,
apes, and humans) is a current focus of paleoprimatology. Although earlier hypotheses …

Phylogenetic analysis of anthropoid relationships

C Ross, B Williams, RF Kay - Journal of Human Evolution, 1998 - Elsevier
The relationships of anthropoids to other primates are currently debated, as are the
relationships among early fossil anthropoids and crown anthropoids. To resolve these …

Early eocene primates from Gujarat, India

KD Rose, RS Rana, A Sahni, K Kumar… - Journal of Human …, 2009 - Elsevier
The oldest euprimates known from India come from the Early Eocene Cambay Formation at
Vastan Mine in Gujarat. An Ypresian (early Cuisian) age of∼ 53Ma (based on foraminifera) …

The oldest known anthropoid postcranial fossils and the early evolution of higher primates

DL Gebo, M Dagosto, KC Beard, T Qi, J Wang - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
The middle Eocene primate family Eosimiidae, which is known from sites in central and
eastern China, and Myanmar, is central to efforts to reconstruct the origin and early evolution …

Anthropoid primates from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills): data on early anthropoid evolution and biogeography

L Marivaux, PO Antoine, SRH Baqri… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Asian tarsiid and sivaladapid primates maintained relictual distributions in southern Asia
long after the extirpation of their close Holarctic relatives near the Eocene–Oligocene …

A new primate from the middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian early origin of anthropoids

JJ Jaeger, T Thein, M Benammi, Y Chaimanee, AN Soe… - Science, 1999 - science.org
A new genus and species of anthropoid primate, Bahinia pondaungensis gen. et sp. nov., is
described from the Yashe Kyitchaung locality in the Late Middle Eocene Pondaung …

An eosimiid primate of South Asian affinities in the Paleogene of Western Amazonia and the origin of New World monkeys

L Marivaux, FR Negri, PO Antoine… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Recent fossil discoveries in Western Amazonia revealed that two distinct anthropoid primate
clades of African origin colonized South America near the Eocene/Oligocene transition (ca …

Eocene primates from Myanmar: historical perspectives on the origin of Anthropoidea

RL Ciochon, GF Gunnell - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The phylogenetic and geographic origins of the primate suborder Anthropoidea have long
been major focal points in the study of primate evolution. Field work in Africa and Asia over …